Editing Metonymy (section)

=== Places and institutions ===
[[File:Башни Московского кремля.jpg|thumb|The [[Kremlin]] is often used as a metonym for the central governments of both the [[Soviet Union]] and modern [[Russia]]]]
The name of a [[capital city]] or notable government building is often used to refer to the authority headquartered there, [[Brussels]] for the [[institutions of the European Union|European Union]],<ref>{{Cite news|date=10 April 2016|title=Spain to ask Brussels for extra year to meet deficit target|work=Reuters|url=http://uk.reuters.com/article/us-spain-economy-idUKKCN0X70F3|access-date=23 June 2017|archive-date=29 July 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200729174258/https://uk.reuters.com/article/us-spain-economy-idUKKCN0X70F3|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|last=Rankin|first=Jennifer|date=13 June 2017|title=Brussels plan could force euro clearing out of UK after Brexit|work=The Guardian|url=https://www.theguardian.com/business/2017/jun/13/brussels-euro-uk-brexit-eu-business|access-date=23 June 2017|issn=0261-3077|archive-date=31 December 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211231052637/https://www.theguardian.com/business/2017/jun/13/brussels-euro-uk-brexit-eu-business|url-status=live}}</ref> [[The Hague]] for the [[International Court of Justice]] or [[International Criminal Court]] (and often international courts generally), [[Nairobi]] for the [[government of Kenya]], the [[Kremlin]] for that of [[Russia]] (and historically, the [[Soviet Union]]), or the [[White House]] and [[Foggy Bottom]] for the United States' [[Executive Office of the President of the United States|Executive Office]] and [[United States State Department|State Department]], respectively, or [[Zhongnanhai]] for the central government of China. A notable historical example is the use of the [[Sublime Porte]] to refer to the central government (or more particularly, sometimes the foreign ministry) of the [[Ottoman Empire]].

A place (or places) can represent an entire industry. For instance: [[Wall Street]], used metonymically, can stand for the United States'. [[financial center|financial sector and major banks]];<ref name="gibbs jr.">{{cite book|last= Gibbs|first= Raymond W. Jr.|chapter=Speaking and Thinking with Metonymy |title=Pattern and Process: A Whiteheadian Perspective on Linguistics, ed. Klaus-Uwe Panther and Günter Radden|year= 1999|publisher= John Benjamins Publishing|location= Amsterdam|isbn= 978-9027223562|pages= 61–76|url= https://books.google.com/books?id=82R4CnbaQ0kC}}</ref> [[K Street (Washington, D.C.)|K Street]] for Washington, D.C.'s [[lobbying]] industry or [[lobbying in the United States]] in general;<ref name="Shales">{{cite news |last=Shales |first=Tom |date=September 15, 2003 |title=HBO's ''K Street'', In Uncharted Territory |pages=C01 |newspaper=[[Washington Post]]}}</ref> [[Hollywood, Los Angeles| Hollywood]] for the [[Cinema of the United States|U.S. film industry]], and the people associated with it; [[Broadway (Manhattan)|Broadway]] for the [[Broadway theatre|American commercial theatrical industry]]; [[Madison Avenue]] for the American advertising industry; and [[Silicon Valley]] for the American technology industry. The [[High Street]] (of which there are over 5,000 in Britain) is a term commonly used to refer to the entire British retail sector.<ref>{{cite news |title=What next for the high street? |url=https://www2.deloitte.com/uk/en/pages/consumer-business/articles/what-next-for-the-high-street.html |access-date=25 June 2022 |work=Deloitte UK}}</ref> Common nouns and phrases can also be metonyms: "[[red tape]]" can stand for [[bureaucracy]], whether or not that bureaucracy uses actual red tape to bind documents. In [[Commonwealth realm]]s, [[the Crown]] is a legal metonym for the [[State (polity)|state]] in all its aspects.<ref name=Jackson20>{{citation| url= https://books.google.com/books?id=ZcIf46DzpfUC| last= Jackson| first= Michael D| title= The Crown and Canadian Federalism| page= 20| publisher= Dundurn Press| location= Toronto| year= 2013| isbn= 9781459709898}}</ref>