1. (Rhetoric) the study of the technique of using language effectively. 2. (Rhetoric) the art of using speech to persuade, influence, or please; oratory. 3. excessive use of ornamentation and contrivance in spoken or written discourse; bombast.4. speech or discourse that pretends to significance but lacks true meaning: all the politician says is mere rhetoric.. (Rhetoric) the art of using speech to persuade, influence, or please; oratory. 3. excessive use of ornamentation and contrivance in spoken or written discourse; bombast. 4. speech or discourse that pretends to significance but lacks true meaning: all the politician says is mere rhetoric.
Confidence votes 76. Richard Warren Sears and Alvah Curtis Roebuck were the founders of the American chain of department stores, Sears, Roebuck and Company, in the late 19th century. Richard Sears learned telegraphy and got a job with the railroad, eventually becoming a station agent.
In 1998, Chrysler merged with German automaker Daimler-Benz AG to form DaimlerChrysler; the merger proved contentious with investors and Chrysler was sold to Cerberus Capital Management and renamed Chrysler LLC in 2007.hrysler greatly expanded in 1928, when it acquired the Fargo truck company and the Dodge Brothers Company and began selling vehicles under those brands; that same year it also established the Plymouth and DeSoto automobile brands.