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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
pars pro toto /ˌpɑːz prəʊ ˈtəʊtəʊ/

▶noun formal a part taken as representative of the whole.

– origin L., lit. ‘part on behalf of the whole’.

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