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"These days people use plastic to pay for everything. " What does the synecdoche mean in this question?
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"These days people use plastic to pay for everything. " What does the synecdoche mean in this question?

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plastic, a material, stands in for a credit card, which, as a monetary device, is much more than its material.
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plastic means credit card instead of printed money. So really, the sentence is saying "These days people use credit cards to pay for everything."

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