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单词 con
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converb [ T ]

uk/kɒn/us/kɑːn/-nn- informal

to make someone believe something false, usually so that that person will give you their money or possessions:

She felt she had been conned into buying the car.
Thieves conned him out of his life savings.
He managed to con £20 out of them (= get that amount from them by deceiving them).

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Cheating & tricking

  • a numbers game idiom
  • bad faith
  • bamboozle
  • bilk
  • blackmail
  • fleece
  • gag
  • hoodwink
  • impersonate
  • jape
  • jiggery-pokery
  • lead sb a (merry) dance idiom
  • poison
  • scam
  • scammer
  • screw
  • sell sb a bill of goods idiom
  • send/give out (all) the wrong signals idiom
  • shaft
  • wool

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connoun

uk/kɒn/us/kɑːn/

con noun (TRICK)

[ C ] informal a trick to get someone's money or make someone do what you want:

It's a con - you get half the food for twice the price!
a con trick

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Cheating & tricking

  • a numbers game idiom
  • bad faith
  • bamboozle
  • bilk
  • blackmail
  • fleece
  • gag
  • hoodwink
  • impersonate
  • jape
  • jiggery-pokery
  • lead sb a (merry) dance idiom
  • poison
  • scam
  • scammer
  • screw
  • sell sb a bill of goods idiom
  • send/give out (all) the wrong signals idiom
  • shaft
  • wool

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con noun (DISADVANTAGE)

[ C usually plural ] informal a disadvantage or a reason for not doing something:

One of the cons of buying a bigger car is that it costs more to run.
You have to weigh up all the pros and cons of the matter before you make a decision.

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Advantage and disadvantage

  • a free ride idiom
  • a stick to beat sb with idiom
  • advantage
  • an ace up your sleeve idiom
  • attraction
  • be/stay/keep one jump ahead idiom
  • cash
  • cash in on sth
  • edge
  • fish
  • it's tough at the top idiom
  • lock in sth
  • lock sb out of sth
  • lose out
  • make a virtue (out) of sth idiom
  • piggyback
  • profit
  • profit from sth
  • you've got nothing to lose idiom
  • your best/strongest/trump card idiom

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con noun (PRISONER)

[ C ] slang a convict noun

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People held in prison

  • captive
  • cellmate
  • convict
  • detainee
  • detenu
  • gaolbird
  • hostage
  • inmate
  • internee
  • jailbird
  • lag
  • lifer
  • political prisoner
  • pow
  • prisoner
  • prisoner of conscience
  • prisoner of war

con-prefix

uk/kɒn-/us/kɑːn-/

together; with:

conspiracy
consortium

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Connecting and combining

  • abut
  • adjoin
  • aggregate
  • allied
  • amalgamate
  • assemblage
  • bind
  • conjunction
  • dovetail
  • eclectic
  • entwine
  • fuse
  • fusion
  • hand to hand idiom
  • lump sb/sth together
  • marriage
  • marry
  • meld
  • merge
  • mesh

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Con.adjective

UK

written abbreviation for Conservative

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Politics - general words

  • a political football idiom
  • apolitical
  • communism
  • conservative
  • depoliticize
  • Leninism
  • Lib Dem
  • liberal
  • Liberal Democrats
  • Maoism
  • politicize
  • politics
  • polity
  • populism
  • populist
  • the National Front
  • the Third Way
  • Tory
  • tour of duty
  • usurp

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