IMPLICATION

n. 1 involvement, connection, inclusion, association, entanglement My implication in that affair was minimal 2 suggestion, hint, insinuation, innuendo, intimation I resent the implication that I had anything to do with the murder 3 significance, purport, drift, meaning, denotation, conclusion, inference, import, connotation, sense, burden, substance, essence, pith The implication of the article is that the government knew about the illegal exports all along