synecdoche in the Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary

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By a synecdoche, it has come to mean the accounting operations of a firm, however housed.
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They and their kin serve a poetic sartorial synecdoche for a century of social history.
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In the heroic age, metonymy and synecdoche support the development of feudal or monarchic institutions embodied by idealized figures.
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