Usually means: Advantages and disadvantages of something.
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General (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. pro and con: Merriam-Webster
  2. pro and con: Wordnik
  3. pro and con: Wiktionary
  4. Pro and con: Dictionary.com
  5. Pro and Con: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  6. Pro and Con: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  7. pro and con: FreeDictionary.org
  8. Pro and con: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  2. Pro and con: Legal dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (pro and con)

▸ verb:  (transitive) To debate the advantages and disadvantages of.

Similar:
dispute, discuss, debate, argue, consider, discourse, reason, outdebate, redebate, propound, more...

Opposite:
for and against

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Similar:
dispute, discuss, debate, argue, consider, discourse, reason, outdebate, redebate, propound, more...

Opposite:
for and against



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