Con | Meaning Of Con - Longman Dictionary

English English English - Japanese English - Korean English - Spanish Japanese - English Spanish - English English English - Japanese English - Korean English - Spanish Japanese - English Spanish - English English 日本語 Español latino 한국어 con From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishconcon1 /kɒn $ kɑːn/ verb (conned, conning) [transitive] informal    1 CHEATto get money from someone by deceiving them SYN swindlecon somebody out of something  He conned me out of £300.2 TRICK/DECEIVEto persuade someone to do something by deceiving them SYN trickcon somebody into doing something  You had no right to con me into thinking I could trust you.→ See Verb tableExamples from the Corpuscon• If something is popular then people are being conned.• A man pretending to be a faith healer has conned around £20,000 out of desperate sick people.• She was too embarrassed to admit that they had conned her into buying 100 acres of worthless land.• Yesterday, a woman claimed the same charity had conned her out of more than three hundred pounds.• Roy Grimshaw, 43, allegedly conned his way into the job using false references.• Most of the major services have received numerous complaints from users who have been conned into purchasing illegal software.• He was trying to con me, and I knew it.• She conned me out of $50.• The old lady was conned out of her life savings by a crooked insurance dealer.• By the time she realized she had been conned, she had lost more than $3000.• They conned the school district into buying the property.• But he tricked them out of the deeds, then conned them out of £85,000 to buy a Bentley.• The criminals conned victims into believing that they could earn money inspecting businesses for compliance with the law. con somebody out of something• He tried to con me out of $20.• In a sense, Deborah conned him out of it.con somebody into doing something• Tyrell conned several millionaires into investing in his business.concon2 noun [countable] informal    1 CHEATa trick to get someone’s money or make them do something  a con to make people pay for goods they hadn’t actually received2 PRISONa prisoner → mod cons, → the pros and consExamples from the Corpuscon• A lot of people gave money to the charity collectors, not realising it was a con.• However, Kurtz is not heavy-handed, laying out the pros and cons of talk culled from years of exhaustive reporting.• Here are a few candidates with the pros and cons of each.• The focus of the drama shifts to discovering the dangers, and weighing up pros and cons of using the magic carpet.• She wanted me to visit a fortune-teller but I thought it was all a big con trick.• Newman and Redford play a couple of guys working an elaborate con.• No one to care about, which is what makes him free enough to be a good con man.• Recent weeks have seen it ride roughshod over ostrich breeders, society con artists, champagne fraudsters and the occasional fallen tycoon. con-con- /kən, kɒn $ kən, kɑːn/ prefix    TOGETHERtogether SYN with  a confederation  to conspire (=plan together) Related topics: GroupingsConConPPG British English the written abbreviation of Conservative, in British politics  Sir Teddy Taylor (Con)From Longman Business Dictionaryconcon1 /kɒnkɑːn/ (conned, conning) verb [transitive]1informal to get money from someone by deceiving themInvestors were conned out of thousands of dollars.2to persuade someone to do something by tricking themHe conned them into believing that the painting was a genuine Picasso.→ See Verb tableconcon2 noun [countable] informal a trick to get someone’s money or make them do somethinga con to make people pay for goods they hadn’t actually receivedOrigin con- Latin com-; → COM- con1 (1800-1900) confidence trick con2 1. (1800-1900) → CON12. (1800-1900) → CONVICT1 Exercises Exercises

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Simple Form
Present
I, you, we, they	con
he, she, it	cons
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Past
I, you, he, she, it, we, they	conned
Present perfect
I, you, we, they	have conned
he, she, it	has conned
Past perfect
I, you, he, she, it, we, they	had conned
Future
I, you, he, she, it, we, they	will con
Future perfect
I, you, he, she, it, we, they	will have conned
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Continuous Form
Present
I	am conning
he, she, it	is conning
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you, we, they	are conning
Past
I, he, she, it	was conning
you, we, they	were conning
Present perfect
I, you, we, they	have been conning
he, she, it	has been conning
Past perfect
I, you, he, she, it, we, they	had been conning
Future
I, you, he, she, it, we, they	will be conning
Future perfect
I, you, he, she, it, we, they	will have been conning
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