Usually means: Creative expressions deviating from literal.
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General (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. figures of speech: Merriam-Webster
  2. figures of speech: Vocabulary.com
  3. figures of speech: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  4. figures of speech: Wiktionary
  5. figures of speech: Dictionary.com
  6. Figures of Speech, Figures of speech: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  7. figures of speech: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. THE 'LECTRIC LAW LIBRARY'S REFERENCE ROOM (No longer online)
  2. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  3. figures of speech: Legal dictionary

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  1. figures of speech: Encyclopedia

Definitions from Wikipedia (Figures of Speech)

noun:  a hip hop group consisting of emcees "Eve" (Ava DuVernay) and Jyant.


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