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| Shopping | The largest selection of REPRESENTATIVE products: USA, UK, Canada, Deutschland, France. |
| TV Shop | As seen on TV: beauty, diets, exercise, household, kitchen, personal, vitamins, and other popular TV-products. |
| ADJECTIVE | 1 | representative | Serving to represent or typify |
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| 2 | representative | Standing for something else | |
| 3 | representative | Being or characteristic of government by representation in which citizens exercise power through elected officers and representatives | |
| NOUN | 1 | representative | A person who represents others |
| 2 | representative, spokesperson, interpreter, voice | An advocate who represents someone else's policy or purpose | |
| 3 | representative, congressman, congresswoman | A member of the United States House of Representatives | |
| 4 | representative, example, illustration, instance | An item of information that is representative of a type |
| Sounds | reh.prahzeh'nahtihv; reh.prahzeh'ntahtihv; reh.prihzeh'nahtihv; reh.prihzeh'ntahtihv |
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| Rhymes | abortive, abrasive, abusive, and 298 more rhymes in ihv... |
| Meaning | Serving to represent or typify. |
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| Examples | "representative moviegoers"; "a representative modern play" |
| Similar to | typical |
| Verbs | represent |
| Meaning | Standing for something else. |
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| Examples | "the bald eagle is representative of the United States" |
| Contrary | nonrepresentative, unsymbolic |
| Similar | allegorical, allegoric; emblematic, emblematical, symbolic, symbolical |
| Verbs | represent; represent |
| Meaning | Being or characteristic of government by representation in which citizens exercise power through elected officers and representatives. |
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| Examples | "representative government as defined by Abraham Lincoln is government of the people, by the people, for the people" |
| Similar to | democratic |
| Verbs | represent |
| Meaning | A person who represents others. |
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| Broader | negotiator, negotiant, treater |
| Narrower | agent; alderman; assemblyman; assemblywoman; contact, middleman; delegate; emissary, envoy; head of state, chief of state; personal representative; resident commissioner; union representative |
| Meaning | An advocate who represents someone else's policy or purpose. |
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| Synonyms | spokesperson, interpreter, voice |
| Broader | advocate, advocator, proponent, exponent |
| Narrower | ambassador; flak catcher, flak, flack catcher, flack; mouthpiece, mouth; spokesman; spokeswoman; traveling salesman, travelling salesman, commercial traveler, commercial traveller, roadman, bagman |
| Meaning | A member of the United States House of Representatives. |
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| Synonyms | congressman, congresswoman |
| Broader | legislator |
| Narrower | rep |
| Meaning | An item of information that is representative of a type. |
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| Synonyms | example, illustration, instance |
| Broader | information |
| Narrower | apology, excuse; exception; precedent, case in point; quintessence; sample; specimen |
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