suggestion
C1[ Cusually plural ]
the effect that an action or decision will have on something else in the future: 可能的影响；可能的后果
implication forThe company is cutting back its spending and I wonder what the implications will be for our department.公司正在削减开支，真不知道这将会对我们部门产生什么影响。
implication ofWhat are the implications of the new law?这部新法意味着什么呢？
C2[ U ]
an occasion when you suggest or show that someone is involved in a crime: 牵连，涉及
The case depended upon his implication of his co-workers in the fraud.这起案件取决于他能否指证他的同事们参与了诈骗。
Because of security implications the officers were tried in secret.出于安全上的考虑，那些军官受到了秘密审判。
What are the implications of his report?
The implication of her claim is that the Minister lied to Parliament.
The incident has serious security implications.
It's not yet clear what the implications of the new legislation will be for small businesses.

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Suggestions & proposals
about
bounce something off someone
can't
co-sponsor
co-sponsorship
drop
imply
make noisesidiom
maybe
move
mover
nomination
on the tableidiom
proposition
put ideas into someone's headidiom
put someone to somethingidiom
put something in
put something up
resubmission
table

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implication | American Dictionary

implication
noun
us/ˌɪm·plɪˈkeɪ·ʃən/
[ C/U ]
a suggestion of something that is made without saying it directly:
[ U ]The implication was that the workers and management had already reached an agreement.
[ C ]What are the implications (= possible effects) of the new regulations?

Examples of implication

implication
Let us assume for the moment that such simulations are possible physically and follow the implications.
Apart from their purely demographic impact, childbearing patterns are also important for their social, psychological, and economic implications.
Distinguishing between these two alternative hypotheses has important implications for the behaviour of political parties.
Local political embeddedness is shallow and political measures have not significantly reduced the implications of this dominance.
The opposite direction of this implication, that is, the completeness of the logical relations with respect to contextual equivalence remains future work.
The data may have important therapeutic implications for the care of dementia patients through the development of reminiscence work.
The major social change with demographic implications is undoubtedly the new roles of women.
The zone of proximal development and its implications for teaching and learning.
The classical truth tables for conjunction and implication are used.
In other words, although the strict style always carried symbolic associations of law and order, this law had different implications at different times.
The predominance of economic, especially macroeconomic, objectives in domestic financial liberalization has two main theoretical implications.
Then the implication of these theories is that we have nothing to say which can impart insight.
Several themes following from the prior discussion can now be summarized in terms of their implications for economic growth.
The difference in prevalence of infection between the two years is surprising and may have important implications for previous and future studies of this nature.
The sequent calculus we consider just has implication, no structural rules and a changed axiom.
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Collocations withimplication

implication

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adverse implications
The adverse implications of the policy are clear.
budgetary implications
This export dependence had important budgetary implications.
constitutional implications
Considerable care was taken to allay anxieties about the constitutional implications of this particular marriage.
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