Meaning & use
recon
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Reconnaissance; the act of gathering information about an area or situation, especially for military purposes.
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The squad was sent ahead to do recon before the main unit advanced.
They did some recon on the neighborhood before deciding where to open the store.
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Recon is an informal shortening of 'reconnaissance,' common in military slang and increasingly used in business and everyday speech to mean preliminary investigation.
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