Look up: intervention

1. Intervention
   Is the action taken by a monetary authority, government, or agency to influence prices, currency rates, capital flows, liquidity, or interest rates.
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2. Intervention
   Any form of government interference with market mechanisms. Intervention is the act of intervening in a market to try to influence the market outcome. An example of intervention is that the Bank of England intervenes daily in the money markets to ensure that interest rates are maintained at the leve...
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3. Intervention
   Ministers have a range of powers to intervene in the affairs of poorly performing councils. Set out in the Local Government Act 1999, these powers allow Whitehall to order councils to take particular measures to improve their services - such as making budget cuts or clearing a benefits backlog. In t...
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4. intervention
   [n] - a policy of intervening in the affairs of other countries 2. [n] - the act of intervening (as to mediate a dispute) 3. [n] - (law) a proceeding that permits a person to enter into a lawsuit already in progress
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5. Intervention
   Medical term for any action, such as a treatment or therapy, used to improve a condition such as autism.
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6. Intervention
   Intervention: The act of intervening, interfering or interceding with the intent of modifying the outcome. In medicine, an intervention is usually undertaken to help treat or cure a condition. For example, early intervention may help children with autism to speak. 'Acupuncture as a therapeutic inter...
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7. intervention
   intervention should be understood in its broadest sense to cover the financing of benefits and related administration costs,as well as the actual provision of benefits Category: Statistics • A human activity that prevents or decreases the exposure of individuals to radiation from sources...
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8. Intervention
   any action which has a physical effect on the fabric of a building.
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9. Intervention
   In`ter·ven'tion noun [ Latin interventio an interposition: confer French intervention .] 1. The act of intervening; interposition. « Sound is shut out by the intervention of that lax membrane.» Holder. ...
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10. intervention
    The act or fact of interfering so as to modify. ... (18 Nov 1997) ...
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11. intervention
    interference noun a policy of intervening in the affairs of other countries
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12. intervention
    intercession noun the act of intervening (as to mediate a dispute)
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13. intervention
    (in″tәr-ven´shәn) a procedure done in the hopes of improving health or changing the course of a disease. crisis intervention counseling or psychotherapy for patients in a life crisis that is directed at supporting the patient through the crisis and helping the p...
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14. Intervention
    • (n.) The act by which a third person, to protect his own interest, interposes and becomes a party to a suit pending between other parties. • (n.) Any interference that may affect the interests of others; especially, of one or more states with the affairs of another; mediation. • (n....
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15. intervention
    (from the article `international law`) It has been argued that force may be used without prior UN authorization in cases of extreme domestic human rights abuses (e.g., the actions taken by ...
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16. intervention
    the act or fact of interfering so as to modify.
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17. intervention
    intervention, interventional 1. An action undertaken in order to change what is happening or might happen in another`s affairs; especially, in order to prevent something undesirable. 2. The action of intervening, stepping in, or interfering in any affair, so as to affect its course or issue. Now fre...
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18. Intervention
    See exchange market intervention.
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19. intervention
    
    • the act of intervening (as to mediate a dispute)
    • a policy of intervening in the affairs of other countries
    
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20. intervention
    In a court case, the presentation of a view on the law without representing one of the parties in the litigation.
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21. Intervention
    It is an act or procedure of a third party to join the ongoing lawsuit by the permission of the judge who gives such allowance on the basis of the facts provided which indicates that this third party has the same interest as the first two parties.
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22. intervention
    n. the procedure under which a third party may join an on-going lawsuit, providing the facts and the law issues apply to the intervenor as much as to one of the existing contestants. The determination to allow intervention is made by a judge after a petition to intervene and a hearing on the issue. ...
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23. intervention
    Type: Term Pronunciation: in′tĕr-ven′shŭn Definitions: 1. An action or ministration that produces an effect or is intended to alter the course of a pathologic process.
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24. intervention
    In medicine, a treatment or action taken to prevent or treat disease, or improve health in other ways.
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25. Intervention
    A purposeful activity aimed at changing the course of events
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