INTERVENTION

treatment, intervention

(noun) care provided to improve a situation (especially medical procedures or applications that are intended to relieve illness or injury)

intervention

(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”

interposition, intervention

(noun) the act or fact of interposing one thing between or among others

intervention, intercession

(noun) the act of intervening (as to mediate a dispute, etc.); “it occurs without human intervention”

intervention, interference

(noun) a policy of intervening in the affairs of other countries

Source: WordNet® 3.1

Etymology

Noun

intervention (countable and uncountable, plural interventions)

The action of intervening; interfering in some course of events.

(US, legal) 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.

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

(medicine) An action taken or procedure performed; an operation.

Anagrams

• introvenient

Source: Wiktionary

In`ter*ven"tion, n. Etym: [L. interventio an interposition: cf. F. intervention.]

1. The act of intervening; interposition. Sound is shut out by the intervention of that lax membrane. Holder.

2. Any interference that may affect the interests of others; especially, of one or more states with the affairs of another; mediation. Let us decide our quarrels at home, without the intervention, of any foreign power. Sir W. Temple.

3. (Civil Law)

Definition: The act by which a third person, to protect his own interest, interposes and becomes a party to a suit pending between other parties.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition