Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • abbreviation conservative
  • abbreviation constable
  • abbreviation consul

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  • The book walks through so many of the big lies (taxes, big government, trickle down economics) of the faux conservatives -- which he calls, so appropriately -- "Cons."

    Rob Kall Book Review, of Thom Hartmann's 2006

  • According to the fundamental idea of schematic undertaking we can conceive the conscious perception only as the particular activity of an independent system for which the abbreviated designation "Cons." commends itself.

    Dream Psychology Psychoanalysis for Beginners Sigmund Freud 1897

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