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By a synecdoche, it has come to mean the accounting operations of a firm, however housed. en.wikipedia.org

They and their kin serve a poetic sartorial synecdoche for a century of social history. www.theglobeandmail.com

In the heroic age, metonymy and synecdoche support the development of feudal or monarchic institutions embodied by idealized figures. en.wikipedia.org

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