METONOMIA
The practice of replacing a specific word with another term that is closely associated with it.
When we use the name Washington DC, we are talking about U.S. policy and its shady wheeling and dealing when referring to the political capital of the United States. Washington DC is the METONOMIA for the U.S. government in this case. Other examples include calling Cervantes the best pen of world literature, the neck of a shirt, or saying a Picasso to mean a painting. It also applies when saying someone is the master of those lares (referring to a home or specific territory) or when one swears loyalty to the flag to mean the whole country.
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