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intervention
care provided to improve a situation (especially medical procedures or applications that are intended to relieve illness or injury)
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- Word length
- 12
- Starts with
- I
- Ends with
- N
- Contains
- NTERVENTIO
- Scrabble score
- 15
- Database source
- OEWN 2025 Core
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noun
care provided to improve a situation (especially medical procedures or applications that are intended to relieve illness or injury)
noun
(law) a proceeding that permits a person to enter into a lawsuit already in progress; admission of person not an original party to the suit so that person can protect some right or interest that is allegedly affected by the proceedings
“the purpose of intervention is to prevent unnecessary duplication of lawsuits”
noun
the act or fact of interposing one thing between or among others
noun
the act of intervening (as to mediate a dispute, etc.)
“it occurs without human intervention”
noun
a policy of intervening in the affairs of other countries
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Example Sentences
the purpose of intervention is to prevent unnecessary duplication of lawsuits
it occurs without human intervention
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