serious implication

collocation in English

meaningsofseriousandimplication

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serious
adjective
uk
/ˈsɪə.ri.əs/us
/ˈsɪr.i.əs/
severe in ...
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implication
noun
uk
/ˌɪm.plɪˈkeɪ.ʃən/us
/ˌɪm.pləˈkeɪ.ʃən/
an occasion when you seem to suggest something without saying ...
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(Definition ofseriousandimplicationfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofserious implication

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But this agreement, ladies and gentlemen, has a moreseriousimplication.
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That is a veryseriousimplication.
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The mostseriousimplicationof this rate support grant is its effect upon bus services.
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There is a moreseriousimplication.
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It seems to me that this has aseriousimplicationfor us all.
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That was aseriousimplicationfor forestry when water is contaminated.
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Such effects carry the risk of dramatically increased property damage, with aseriousimplicationfor property insurers.
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The mostseriousimplicationis for people with personal pensions and group money-purchase schemes.
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It is not for a trivial cause that a member is removed from a party, and so there is aseriousimplicationin this.
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That is a mostseriousimplicationagainst my profession and one which ought to be most carefully examined.
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There is a moreseriousimplicationthan that.
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Where amendments existed, they could have aseriousimplicationfor the fair and just operation of the election.
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It sounds funny at first, but there is aseriousimplicationbehind those words.
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Perhaps the mostseriousimplicationof recent events is the fact that such incidents show that the entire system of drinking water regulation is inadequate.
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I tried to be deadly serious and to point out itsseriousimplication.
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That has aseriousimplicationfor the whole of the milk industry.
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There is anotherseriousimplication.
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That is aseriousimplication.
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Failure to do so, by contrast, would have very serious implications.
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Both ideological near-reversals occurred relatively quietly, and both had serious implications for the practice of science.
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