intervention

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
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  treatment , interposition , interference , intercession
• Antonyms: 
  nonintervention , noninterference