implication

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Maybe it's not to the extent that everyone would like, but I'm not sure the implication is as ridiculous as you state.

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  1. noun The act of implicating or the condition of being implicated.
  2. noun The act of implying or the condition of being implied.
  3. noun Something that is implied, especially:
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  • But if the two lunatics were one and the same lunatic, then the implication was an alarming one, and she herself must, at all costs, interfere at least so far as to tell what she knew. —  Gaudy Night Dorothy L Sayers -3rd Lord Peter WImsey/Harriet Vane book
  • The implication, then, is that the inclusion of "bird flu" was intentional and shipped all over the world to trigger a pandemic. —  WHAT REALLY HAPPENED
  • Dilbert is using words I don't understand and the Lockhorns is using phrases that I'm pretty sure the writer doesn't understand, but I'm worried at the underlying implication, which is that the U.S. government, alarmed at declining tax revenues during the recession, is looking to audit high-earners and is targeting cartoonists. —  The Comics Curmudgeon
  • The long-term implication of these changes is that profits are not as necessary for investment as they used to be. —  Forbes.com: News
  • "The long-term implication is that it will encourage Europe to diversify its supply," —  Google News - Top Stories
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  1. = French implication = Spanish implicacion = Portuguese implicação = Italian implicazione, from Latin implicatio(n-), inplicatio(n-), an entwining, entanglement, intermixing, from implicare, inplicare, past participle implicatus, inplicatus, entwine, implicate: see implicate, v.
 

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/ɪmplɪˈkeɪʃən/
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