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).
By Richard Nordquist. Definition: A rhetorical term for the use of a word to modify or govern two or more words although its use may be grammatically or logically correct with only one.Adjective: zeugmatic. We're better off using zeugma in its broadest sense and not confusing matters by introducing syllepsis, a little-known term the meaning of which even the experts can't agree on.. ( 2 Bryan A. Garner, The Oxford Dictionary of American Usage and Style.