Collocation Dictionary
Common collocations with intervention in American Collocation
intervention
noun
countable/uncountable
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What are red words?
Around 90% of spoken and written English relies on just 7,500 common words.These words are highlighted in red and are ranked using a star system.
- One-star words are commonly used
- Two-star words are even more common
- Three-star words are the most frequently used
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/ˌɪntərˈvenʃ(ə)n/
early
early
timely
With early intervention disabled children’s lives can be transformed.
not much
minimal
The children work on their own or in groups, with minimal intervention from teachers.
effective
effective
targeted
To be effective, interventions need to be customer-oriented.
medical
medical
pharmacological
surgical
therapeutic
When other treatments have failed, surgical intervention is possible.
by an army or government
armed
government
humanitarian
military
state
Government intervention in the media varies across countries.
human/not human
divine
human
manual
Service has been patchy where the failure of IT has meant reliance on human intervention.
Mostly this process will happen automatically but sometimes manual intervention is required.
need or ask for intervention
call for
necessitate
need
require
Within a couple of years she felt that further surgical intervention was required.
justify intervention
justify
warrant
The problem is not serious enough to warrant intervention.