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Metonymy

Legal definition for Indian law research

Definition

A trope in which one word is put for another that suggests it as we say a man keeps a good table instead of good provisions we read Virgil that is his poems a man has a warm heart that is warm affections a city dweller has no wheels that is no automobile

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