metonymy

Meaning

Noun

• The Crown has enacted a new social security policy.
• The use of a single characteristic or part of an object, concept or phenomenon to identify the entire object, concept, phenomenon or a related object.
• A metonym.

Origin

• From Late Latin metonymia, from Ancient Greek μετωνυμίᾱ ("change of name"), from μετά + ὄνομα.