implication

CEFRB2

/ˌɪmpləˈkeɪʃən/

noun

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noun
A possible meaning or result not directly stated.
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noun
Extra detail
A possible, or indirect, effect or result of a decision or action.

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Sits at B2 on the CEFR scale

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Extra meanings

The state of being implicated.
The act of implicating.
The connective in propositional calculus that, when joining two predicates A and B in that order, has the meaning "if A is true, then B is true".

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What was the implication of his remark?
Dumping waste in the river will have serious implications for the environment.
And while that number is expected to shift back slightly into positive territory over this decade, fewer children today establishes an unmistakable implication for tomorrow: fewer adults available as consumers, workers and taxpayers.

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And while that number is expected to shift back slightly into positive territory over this decade, fewer children today establishes an unmistakable implication for tomorrow: fewer adults available as consumers, workers and taxpayers.
2021 April 23, Ronald Brownstein, “The racist ‘replacement theory’ has it all backward”, in CNN
With his legal maneuverings, Trump is showing that he also understands the implications of this election — one that could give him substantial powers as president to defray or dismiss many of the legal threats that he’s facing and to behave in office without future accountability.
2024 February 5, Stephen Collinson, “Trump’s legal battles are at a critical moment with major implications for the 2024 election”, in CNN
But we can also take a more analytical attitude to these displays, interpreting the movements as no more than approachings, touchings, and departings with no implication that one shape caused the other to move.
2011, Lance J. Rips, Lines of Thought: Central Concepts in Cognitive Psychology, page 168

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From Middle French implication, from Latin implicationem (accusative of implicatio).Equivalent to implicate + -ion.