intervention

The act or process of intervening.

The systematic process of assessment and planning employed to remediate or prevent a social, educational, or developmental problem.

An act that alters the course of a disease, injury, or condition by initiating a treatment or performing a procedure or surgery.

A planned, often unannounced meeting with a person with a serious personal problem, such as addiction, in order to persuade the person to seek treatment.

The act or state of intervening; a coming between; interposition; mediatorial interference: as, light is interrupted by the intervention of an opaque body; the intervention of one state in the affairs of another.

In law, the act by which a third person interposes and becomes a party to a suit pending between other parties.

The act of intervening; interposition.

Any interference that may affect the interests of others; especially, of one or more states with the affairs of another; — the intervention of one state in the affairs of another is typically unwelcome by the state being intervened in, but some cases of mediation between states may be called intervention. Opposed to nonintervention.

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