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Common collocations with intervention in American Collocation

intervention noun countable/uncountable

US /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.