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representative
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Word definitions for representative in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Representative \Rep`re*sent"a*tive\ (-z?nt`?-t?v), a. [Cf. F. repr?sentatif.] Fitted to represent; exhibiting a similitude. Bearing the character or power of another; acting for another or others; as, a council representative of the people. --Swift. Conducted ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
I. adjective COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES accredited representative ▪ the UK accredited representative House of Representatives sales representative COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADVERB broadly ▪ Responses have been received from all over the country, and ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1640s, "example, type," from representative (adj.); 1690s in sense of "member of a legislative body."
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. serving to represent or typify; "representative moviegoers"; "a representative modern play" standing for something else; "the bald eagle is representative of the United States" [ant: nonrepresentative ] being or characteristic of government by representation ...
Usage examples of representative.
As an accredited representative of my government, I could hardly be accused of doing such a thing without conclusive proof.
British accredited representative, expressly provided for the unfettered freedom of conscience.
Winant, who was the United States Representative on the three-member European Advisory Commission.
The two most prominent representatives of the Anarchist idea in America, Voltairine de Cleyre and Emma Goldman--the one a native American, the other a Russian--have been converted, like numerous others, to the ideas of Anarchism by the judicial murder.
Lord Palmerston took the country, if not the house, by surprise in announcing that he had chosen Lord John Russell as the representative of England at the conference about to ensue.
Turmeric, saffron, anotta, are about the only representatives, and these are not of much importance in wool dyeing by themselves, although they are sometimes used in conjunction with other natural dye-stuffs, when they are applied by a process which is adapted more especially for the other dye-stuff which is used.
Heinders, but the watching public had taken it comparatively quietly, seemingly more interested in watching the antics of their representatives in the hall below than encouraging any particularly partisan opinion now that a decision had been reached.
Senate of an extension of the Capitol, by the construction of a new Senate-Chamber and Hall of Representatives, may have caused the appropriation for that object to be put under my charge as Secretary of War.
Horyuji buildings, it is especially representative of the Buddhist architectural style of the Six Dynasties period.
It has required that appointees be representative of a political party, of an industry, of a geographic region, or of a particular branch of the Government.
It is somewhat interesting to compare the platform to which the Democrats assented in 1872 with any they had ever before adopted, or with the record of their senators and representatives in Congress upon all the public questions at issue during the years immediately preceding the Convention.
I, um, happened to notice when I was waiting for a representative of the Autocrat to contact me.
It held that the House of Representatives had overstepped its jurisdiction when it instituted an investigation of losses suffered by the United States as a creditor of Jay Cooke and Company, whose estate was being administered in bankruptcy by a federal court.
Senart, formerly President of the Constituent Assembly, Bastide, Laissac, Landrin, had joined the Representatives on the preceding day.
Though the clan had maintained significant business interests in the city for over twenty years now, Prince Benison did not often allow direct representatives of the family to remain in town.