"a high degree of state intervention in the economy"

• interference by a state in another's affairs

  "the government was reported to be considering military intervention"

• action taken to improve a medical disorder

  "two patients were referred for surgical intervention"

• an occasion on which a person with an addiction or other behavioural problem is confronted by a group of friends or family members in an attempt to persuade them to address the issue

  "as her health worsened, her daughters considered staging an intervention"