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intervention
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Noun
  • care provided to improve a situation (especially medical procedures or applications that are intended to relieve illness or injury)
  • (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
  • the act or fact of interposing one thing between or among others
  • a policy of intervening in the affairs of other countries
  • the act of intervening (as to mediate a dispute, etc.)
    • it occurs without human intervention
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