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- DictionaryCon/kän/
verb
- 1. persuade (someone) to do or believe something, typically by use of a deception: "I conned him into giving me your home number"
noun
- 1. an instance of deceiving or tricking someone: "a con artist"
A con, or confidence game, is a swindle — when you take advantage of someone's trust. If you con someone out of their life savings, you might wind up a con — as in convict. The word con has many meanings, none of them good. An argument has pros and cons, and the cons are always the downside.
Con definition: against a proposition, opinion, etc.. See examples of CON used in a sentence.
to trick someone, especially in order to take money from them: Thieves conned him out of his life savings. She felt she had been conned into buying the car. con. noun [ C ] informal uk / kɒn / us. a trick to get someone's money, or make them do what you want. (Definition of con from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)
4 days ago · 1. transitive verb. If someone cons you, they persuade you to do something or believe something by telling you things that are not true. [informal] He claimed that the business director had conned him of $10,000. White conned his way into a job as a warehouseman with Dutch airline, KLM.
the pros and cons. the advantages and disadvantages of something. Definition of con noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English con1 /kɒn $ kɑːn/ verb (conned, conning) [ transitive] informal 1 to get money from someone by deceiving them SYN swindle con somebody out of something He conned me out of £300. 2 to persuade someone to do something by deceiving them SYN trick con somebody into doing something You had no right ...
adj. Informal Terms involving dishonesty and trickery; deceitful: swindled by a con artist. v. Informal Terms to swindle; trick: [ ~ + object + out of + object] The crooks conned her out of her life savings. [ ~ + object] She was conned quite smoothly.
