0 the practice of refusing to get involved in a situation, especially in a disagreement between countries or within a country:
a policy of non-intervention
Since other reliable non-intervention means of pregnancy testing are available, use of hormonal pregnancy tests should be discontinued.
Doctors were no more likely to cite health-care system constraints as reasons for non-intervention for older than for midlife patients.
It deals with important issues of deliberation or contention such as the role of the economy and intervention versus non-intervention.
The unionist victory in 1924 was due to liberal non-intervention, but there was more to it than that.
Today, the governments of the three cities adopt a 'non-intervention' policy towards economic development that allows the growth of local popular music.
Toward it, the norm of non-intervention reflects solicitude, which is the opposite of indifference.
For decades, non-intervention was seen as the correlative of sovereignty.
Such non-intervention both reflects and reinforces member-state sovereignty.