REPRESENTATIVE
Definition:
- [noun] a person who represents others
- [noun] an advocate who represents someone else's policy or purpose; "the meeting was attended by spokespersons for all the major organs of government"
Synonyms: spokesperson, interpreter, voice
- [noun] a member of the United States House of Representatives
Synonyms: congressman, congresswoman
- [noun] an item of information that is representative of a type; "this patient provides a typical example of the syndrome"; "there is an example on page 10"
Synonyms: example, illustration, instance
- [adjective] serving to represent or typify; "representative moviegoers"; "a representative modern play"
- [adjective] standing for something else; "the bald eagle is representative of the United States"
- [adjective] being or characteristic of government by representation in which citizens exercise power through elected officers and representatives; "representative government as defined by Abraham Lincoln is government of the people, by the people, for the people"
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Related Words:
- agent
- alderman
- assemblyman
- assemblywoman
- contact, middleman
- delegate
- emissary, envoy
- head of state, chief of state
- personal representative
- resident commissioner
- union representative
- ambassador
- flak catcher, flak, flack catcher, flack
- mouthpiece, mouth
- spokesman
- spokeswoman
- traveling salesman, travelling salesman, commercial traveler, commercial traveller, roadman, bagman
- rep
- apology, excuse
- exception
- precedent, case in point
- quintessence
- sample
- specimen
