intervention

intervene | American Dictionary

intervene
verb[ I ]
us/ˌɪn·tərˈvin/

interveneverb[I] (GET INVOLVED)

to become involved intentionally in a difficult situation in order to change it or improve it, or prevent it from getting worse:
The superpowers began to intervene in local struggles in Africa.

interveneverb[I] (COME BETWEEN)

to happen between two events, or to prevent something from happening by happening first:
Two decades intervened between the completion of the design and the opening of the theater.

intervene | Business English

intervene
verb[ I ]
uk /ˌɪntəˈviːn/us
to become involved in a difficult situation in order to improve it or prevent it from getting worse:
intervene in sthThe Central Bank intervened in the currency markets today to try to stabilize the exchange rate.
The company has resolved the issue, and there is no need for the courts to intervene.

Examples of intervene

intervene
The researcher intervened by raising awareness of this issue and providing language input which catered to the students' observed needs.
Duration of individual consonant closures can be measured in the intervocalic contexts and in clusters with an intervening internal release (236 tokens).
Thus, policy networks are the intervening variable explaining why an internationally diffused policy idea is implemented differently in various national settings.
As the spread of globalisation influences a nation's social policy through intervening variables, the characteristics of these intervening variables become more important.
Agencies battled with one another for the right to issue public credit, and politicians increasingly intervened to allocate that credit to favored industries.
Interaction between hydrophobic surfaces with metastable intervening liquid.
The construct state construction, traditionally called smixut, involves the adjacency of two nouns with no intervening element between them.
The community itself intervened to maintain this family structure through a wide variety of social institutions.
Spectral expansion and divergence make us aware of the extent of the intervening spectral space, which may remain empty or become occupied.
The ward executive officer intervened, and suggested that a vote again be taken on the matter.
The major regularities with regard to these cases involve intervening segments and phonic salience in the plural 0 singular opposition.
There were only ten tokens with two intervening lexical items, and so the categories for two and three intervening items have been combined together.
The influence of these independent variables on outcomes is mediated by intervening communicative behaviors of physicians and patients in the clinical encounter.
In order to create a clear and coherent sense of policy orientation, they often intervened to ensure the smooth working relationship between state economic institutions.
The next step was to encourage banks to lend long-term, and for that governments intervened in two ways.
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