implication

In a sentence

Six example sentences with implication, each labelled with its topic.

• If every event has a cause, the implication troubles students: their own choices were settled long before they were born.

  Philosophy

• The fossil sits below the ash layer, and the implication is that these animals reached the valley earlier than assumed.

  Science

• Counsel objected to the question because its implication was that her client had known about the missing invoices.

  Law

• If the population is aging, the implication for pensions is stark: fewer workers fund each retiree every year.

  Economics

• The implication of the chart was clear to anyone who read it: the fund had never once beaten its benchmark.

  Finance

• The rookie started over the veteran, and the implication that a trade was coming reached the locker room within minutes.

  Basketball

Found in these word lists

Each source is a published word list that contains implication. No exam board publishes an official GRE, GMAT or SAT list; GMAT words come from GRE lists and the Academic Word List.

More Academic words

• colleague
• restriction
• substitution
• competent
• edit
• factor
• anticipated
• exceed
• component
• pronounced
• novice
• abdominal