intervention
nounUS /ɪntɚˈvɛnʃən/ · UK /ɪntəˈvɛnʃən/
Etymology From Middle French intervention, from Latin interventiō. Morphologically intervene + -tion.
1
The action of intervening; interfering in some course of events.
- Fernando Torres was recalled in place of the suspended Didier Drogba and he was only denied a goal in the opening seconds by Laurent Koscielny's intervention - a moment that set the tone for game filled with attacking quality and littered with errors.2011 October 29, Phil McNulty, “Chelsea 3 - 5 Arsenal”, in BBC Sport:
3
An orchestrated attempt to convince somebody with an addiction or other psychological problem to seek professional help and/or change their behavior.
4
Medicine, Sciences An action taken or procedure performed; an operation.
- As I showed, although some rhetoricians, such as Mesmer and Erb, claimed that their interventions were medical treatments, others, such as Freud and Jung, claimed that their interventions were both medical curings and spiritual carings.1988, Thomas Stephen Szasz, The Myth of Psychotherapy, page 183:
- “It goes with my mantra of there is ‘no magic pill’ to prevent cognitive decline,” said Isaacson, who was not involved in the new study. “At my clinic, we check nutritional blood measures and personally tailor interventions, and in doing so we don’t tend to recommend multivitamins since we address the individual deficiencies.”2023 May 24, Sandee LaMotte, “Can a daily multivitamin slow cognitive aging? Maybe”, in CNN:
- Derived terms
- cointervention, counterintervention, immunointervention, interventionable, macrointervention, microintervention, neurointervention, nonintervention, non-intervention, postintervention, postvention, preintervention, prointervention, reintervention, teleintervention, interventional → interventionally, interventionism, interventionistic, crisis intervention, currency intervention, divine intervention, humanitarian intervention, percutaneous coronary intervention