Intervention
nounverified·updated May 18, 2026
care provided to improve a situation (especially medical procedures or applications that are intended to relieve illness or injury)
Framework senses
- §1
- care provided to improve a situation (especially medical procedures or applications that are intended to relieve illness or injury)
- §2
- (law) a proceeding that permits a person to enter into a lawsuit already in progress
- §3
- the act or fact of interposing one thing between or among others
- §4
- the act of intervening (as to mediate a dispute, etc.)
- §5
- a policy of intervening in the affairs of other countries