cons

/ˈkɑnz/

noun 1verb 1

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ADJ.

available, famous, young

The famous cons artist managed to trick wealthy investors out of millions of dollars.

CONS + NOUN

anything, proposal, relationship

We discussed the cons of the proposal before making a final decision.

PREP.

We discussed all the pros and cons in great detail before making our final decision.

Definitions

noun

A data structure in Lisp that is a pair of pointers, car and cdr, used mainly for lists.

verb

To obtain a list from a cons or a nesting of conses; to prepend an element to a list by forming a cons of that element and the list; to obtain a list from a smaller one by repeated application of such kind of prepending.

This version of length arises naturally from the recursive definition of a list: “a list is either the empty list or an element consed onto another list.”

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This version of length arises naturally from the recursive definition of a list: “a list is either the empty list or an element consed onto another list.”

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There are pros and cons to anything.

Tatoeba · #35998

What are the pros and cons of hitchhiking?

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Both sides have pros and cons, therefore I will not decide yet which one I will support.

Tatoeba · #1153949

The goal of this report is to research all the pros and cons of the proposal.

Tatoeba · #2897778

Tom and Mary were discussing the pros and cons of raising the minimum wage.

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