intervention — ozdic

Collocations

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(noun.)

ADJ

direct

The doctor's direct intervention saved the patient's life during the emergency.

active, decisive, forceful

early, immediate, timely

The doctor's early intervention helped prevent the infection from becoming serious.

effective, successful | limited

personal

The teacher's personal intervention helped resolve the conflict between the two students.

government, ministerial, official, state | external, foreign, outside

armed, military

The government called for military intervention to stop the violence in the region.

police | judicial, legal | medical, surgical | economic, political, social

divine, human

The doctor's quick human intervention saved the patient's life during the emergency.

VERB + INTERVENTION

make

The teacher made an intervention when the students started arguing during the lesson.

call for, demand

Many parents call for school intervention when their children struggle with reading.

resist

PREP

~ against

The government decided to take swift intervention against the spread of the disease in rural areas.

~ by

The doctor's intervention by prescribing antibiotics helped clear the infection quickly.

~ from

The government's intervention from Brussels angered many local politicians who wanted to make their own decisions.

~ in

The doctor's intervention in the patient's treatment plan made a significant difference.

~ on behalf of

The teacher's intervention on behalf of the bullied student helped resolve the conflict peacefully.

PHRASES

the power/right of intervention

Definitions

noun

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.

2

A legal motion through which a person or entity who has not been named as a party to a case seeks to have the court order that they be made a party.

3

An orchestrated attempt to convince somebody with an addiction or other psychological problem to seek professional help and/or change their behavior.

4

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.

“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.”

Thesaurus

Synonyms

noun — care provided to improve a situation (especially medical pro

treatment

noun — the act or fact of interposing one thing between or among ot

interposition

noun — the act of intervening (as to mediate a dispute, etc.)

intercession

noun — a policy of intervening in the affairs of other countries

interference

Antonyms

nonintervention
noninterference

Idioms & Phrases

Example Bank

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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 fill

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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 me

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03

“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 personal

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04

It has been shown in most studies on this subject that intervention of the legislature had adverse effects.

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05

State intervention should be conducted by generating positive and intense incentives.

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06

His family staged an intervention to confront his abuse of prescription drugs.

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Usage Notes

i Register

In some senses, intervention is marked as US. Watch for register when choosing this word.