200106334L June 6, 2001 ************** ************** ************** Dear **************: Thank you for your letter concerning Texas taxes. You state that your company is a national service provider for the food and beverage, restaurant, and convenience store equipment industry.
zeugma. n. 1. (Literary & Literary Critical Terms) a figure of speech in which a word is used to modify or govern two or more words although appropriate to only one of them or making a different sense with each, as in the sentence Mr. Pickwick took his hat and his leave (Charles Dickens).
The definition of a zeugma is a figure of speech where one word applies to multiple words within a sentence. An example of a zeugma is saying that a woman's dress was blue and so was her mood. zeugma. zeugma.