implication
noun/ˌɪmplɪˈkeɪʃn/
Слово англійською: implication
Переклад implication українською: залучення; уплутування; утягування, причетність; співучасть, приховане значення, затаєний смисл, by ~ — за змістом, підтекст
Детальний опис
- [countable, usually plural] a possible effect or result of an action or a decision
- They failed to consider the wider implications of their actions.
- implication (of something) for something The development of the site will have implications for the surrounding countryside.
- [countable, uncountable] something that is suggested or indirectly stated (= something that is implied)
- implication (that…) I resent the implication that I don't care about my father.
- by implication He criticized the Director and, by implication, the whole of the organization.
- [uncountable] implication (of somebody) (in something) the fact of being involved, or of involving somebody, in something, especially a crime synonym involvement
- He resigned after his implication in a sex scandal.
Word Originlate Middle English (in the sense ‘entwining, being entwined’): from Latin implicatio(n-), from the verb implicare, from in- ‘in’ + plicare ‘to fold’.