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# representative

noun (a representative, representatives); adjective (representative of)

«representative» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. A person chosen to speak or act for others: our class representative. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/representative/#m1)
2. A person who works for a company and sells or explains its things: a sales representative. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/representative/#m2)
3. (US) A member of the House of Representatives. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/representative/#m3)
4. (adjective) Typical; showing what a group is like: a representative sample. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/representative/#m4)

### In the lessons

In school, each class chooses a representative for the school council. In maths and science, a representative sample is a small group that fairly shows the whole group. Phrases: class representative, sales rep, representative sample.

### Examples

- Our class chose Leo as our representative. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/representative/#x1)
- A representative from the bank visited the school. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/representative/#x2)
- The survey used a representative sample of pupils. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/representative/#x3)
- Is our sample representative of the whole school? [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/representative/#x4)
- She is a representative in Congress. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/representative/#x5)
- Call a customer service representative. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/representative/#x6)
- Remarks.--No collection of Celtic Folk-Tales would be representative that did not contain some specimen of the gruesome. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/representative/#x7)

### Note

Countable. Short informal form: rep. Maths: a sample is representative only if chosen fairly, otherwise results are biased.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «representative» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/representative/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«representative» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/representative.html) on Mova free.