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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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A synecdoche is a figure of speech by which a part is used to represent the whole and in this sentence the “plastic” is a part of the credit card but is used to represent the credit card in its entirety.
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A figure of Speach that represents something as “whole”
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