Definition of representative in English:

representative

adjective rɛprɪˈzɛntətɪvˌrɛprəˈzɛn(t)ədɪv

1Typical of a class, group, or body of opinion.
Churchill was not properly representative of influential opinion in Britain
Example sentencesExamples
- Secondly, why would these representative strategies indicate that Julie's mind is ‘a place of absence’?
- An official of the independent Financial Supervisory Service said that as of this month, seven Japanese banks have branches in South Korea and six others have representative offices.
- The suppliers of bond ETFs get around the liquidity problem by using representative sampling, which simply means tracking only a sufficient number of bonds to represent an index.
- Consider the following situation: a representative consumer is faced with a rise in price of a product he has been buying, even though its price to begin with is relatively high.
- She therefore rejects her position as someone who has ‘special significance’ in the narrative by refusing to play the role of representative victim assigned to her.
- A representative farm that utilizes typical production methods in the major cotton production region is constructed for Georgia.
- ‘We really need a representative office in China,’ says Wang.
- Maximizing utility for increasing risk aversion shows the decreases in profit that the representative farm would be willing to accept for decreases in variability of net returns.
- The more representative 1.4 S model, which also has air conditioning, keyless entry, power windows and mirror adjustment, costs €18,695.
- Jane is both an effectively realized individual and a representative figure, a spokesperson for the African American experience from slavery times to the era of the civil rights movement.
- For one thing, we will have to ignore a good deal of commentary presented by nameless characters, by representative characters, and by lay figures who appear for one important speech and are never seen again.
- The distinction is now moot; knowledge rhetorically induced from a representative anecdote will ironically contain both of Ransom's two knowledges.
- It seems likely that it was put here as a reference for the other two, since many of the scenes from this movie appear in the documentary also included in this set, and as a representative talkie he did for MGM.
- But the poem is representative not exceptional.
- Here is a representative synopsis of current opinion.
- This has involved the development of new representative mechanisms at the European level which maintain the regulatory gap through the enduring dominance of subsidiarity.
- In other words, her work is meant to compliment representative women as a means of facing down both negative female representations and the feminine false consciousness that participates in their transmission.
- You're dealing with very iconic, representative characters.
- Much of this story is familiar to specialists in the field, above all through the varied and often exhaustive archival research done in Germany over the years for each of the representative museums.
- The entrant must perform a program that includes a significant representative selection from each of the following.
Synonyms
typical, prototypical, characteristic, illustrative, indicative
archetypal, paradigmatic, exemplary
1. 1.1 Containing typical examples of many or all types.
  a representative sample of young people in Scotland
  Example sentencesExamples
  The final data is then weighted to these demographic parameters as a final check to ensure the sample is entirely representative.
  It eliminated 21 industry groups that were either too small to provide a representative sample or were of little relevance to most readers.
  As a result, the dance companies whose data appears here are not a scientifically representative sample of the dance field as a whole.
  A show currently at New York's Janos Gat Gallery features Ross's latest works, along with representative examples of earlier series.
  A representative sample poll of 4,000 people has a plus or minus one per cent chance of correctly calling the outcome of a national or constituency vote.
  We shall discuss some representative examples.
  A representative sample of Australian sound designs, from both indoor and outdoor sites help to communicate this national practice.
  A representative sample of this spectacular art collection is exhibited on three floors in 43 galleries, some of which are graced by exquisite stucco ceilings.
  No figures are given for the number of individuals interviewed, but instead we are informed that data was taken from a representative sample of 202 companies.
  Getting a representative sample of such a diverse and unconcentrated industry is difficult but essential.
  It is hard to say how representative a sample this is.
  Let's consider his latest among a representative sample of 2004's notable short story collections.
  Collect a representative sample - no less than 5 lb in a paper bag (good idea to double bag) and directly transport or mail to a laboratory for testing.
  A soil probe can help provide a representative sample.
  A wide blade putty knife is excellent for breaking up the soil and insuring a representative sample.
  The sheer number of illustrations is one of the book's main strengths and it is reasonably unlikely that any attempt to research a specific decanter will fail to locate a representative example.
  Follow these instructions carefully to avoid contamination and to obtain a representative sample.
  By getting e-mail addresses of a representative sample of the electorate, we can invite 50,000 to 100,000 people to participate at once.
  Nor can it be claimed that the participants constitute a statistically representative sample of the industry.
  The final selection of student projects for the Archiprix is not a representative sample of what is going on below the surface.
2(of a legislative assembly or deliberative body) consisting of people chosen to act and speak on behalf of a wider group.
the new government lacked a representative assembly
there was no representative body to fight for cricketers until 1968
Example sentencesExamples
- The size of this representative governing body has changed: formerly made up of 121 members, the new council has approximately 100 voting members.
- Industry sources said representative bodies such as the American Chamber of Commerce could play an increasingly important role in future.
- Their representative body, the Irish Hardware and Building Materials Association, was not prepared to make an official comment.
- The Exhibition has been organised by the Angolan Industrial Association, a representative body for the Angolan business sector.
- The Minister for Health, Micheal Martin, will pitch the proposals to a huge range of interest groups and representative bodies.
- The advertising industry's representative body, the Institute of Advertising Practitioners in Ireland, welcomed the news.
- Respond drafted an alternative plan and then entered into consultations with locals, representative organisations and councillors from the area.
- Leading trade union figures and the employers' representative body, Ibec, will battle it out over the next two months, with no guarantees that a new partnership deal will result from the talks.
- Nacba, which is the representative body of over 270 Irish gift stores, works closely with Irish manufacturers.
- The company told the Blessington Forum, a representative body of the town's businesses, that it was considering turning the dump into a legal landfill.
- A Loya Jirga, a sort of representative national assembly summoned to sanction a draft new constitution, seemed to have been unimpressed.
- For instance, trade unions, farmers' groups and other representative bodies are among the most powerful lobbyists.
- As the representative body for sporting shooting in the UK, It is launching the campaign of training and awareness to ensure that all airgun owners can practise their sport legally and safely.
- In the UK, large companies have traditionally operated a system of workers' councils which also allow workers a say in the management of the business by allocating them places on such a representative body.
- The Conference of Religious in Ireland, the representative body for the orders, recently called for more land to be made available for social housing.
- As the representative body of the British Jewish community, we have received a number of complaints about it from Jewish people in many parts of the world.
- Thus, the institutions of the European Union that should be representative bodies are indeed so.
- Kubba advocates quick national elections for a second, broadly representative council to perform functions such as drafting a constitution.
1. 2.1 (of a government or political system) based on elected or chosen representatives.
  free elections and representative democracy
  Example sentencesExamples
  Measured by Enlightenment standards, this is a perfectly representative democracy, answering individual wants in a time always tending towards ideal simultaneity.
  Unfavorable governments in favor of big business therefore remain in power at the cost of a representative government.
  None of this is an argument against representative government.
  All told, representative democracy was in a state of ‘collapse’.
  Dempsey claimed it was strangling national political debate and undermining effective representative parliamentary democracy.
  The main prerequisite of representative democracy is based on an assumption that an average citizen enjoys free and equal access to any political debate.
  I know she wanted to make democracy more representative, but were there certain pieces of legislation that she worked on to achieve that end?
  Since by its very nature the power to issue money is unlimited, the new monetary regime flies in the face of the principle of representative government of limited and enumerated powers.
  Invariably, multiparty elections in Nigeria were meant to encourage the expression of the needs of different interest groups and thereby create a representative plurality that would equate to true democracy.
  The reason we have representative government is because we elect these people to spend a little time thinking that the issues, sometimes we don't have the time to do that.
  There is still an opportunity for the Bush Administration to set Iraq onto a political path leading to representative democracy.
  If representative democracy worked properly there would be little to complain about if parliament chose to deliver (or, indeed, not to deliver) on social and economic rights.
  The draft constitution claims that the workings of the union ‘shall be founded on the principle of representative democracy’.
  Another northern area of the country declared itself the Republic of Puntland, and has made strides towards establishing a representative government, according to analysts.
  The United States is a responsive representative democracy.
  It's really a strategic interest of the U.S. to see progress toward representative government and free government and free markets and economic development.
  It is precisely to temper the passions of the people that we resort to representative rather than direct democracy.
  But it is realistic to hope it can be better, that it can be somewhat stable, that the government can be somewhat representative and we can live with that.
  It could, I suppose, be an agglomeration of similar moods, imaginatively totted up to form a persuasive total: mood as analogous to representative democracy.
  But perhaps the most important issue you start to confront is that of our representative democracy becoming ingrained, insular, and angry.
  Synonyms
  elected, elective, chosen, democratic, popular, nominated, appointed, commissioned
  delegated, authorized, accredited, official
3Serving as a portrayal or symbol of something.
the show would be more representative of how women really are
Example sentencesExamples
- I tried to make music that suited the artist and reflected the signature of that artist, and was very representative of who they were.
- The actors throw themselves around the space, with little heed for the physical risks that they take, and their physical movement is the most representative of their emotions.
- So in a way, it was a very positive iconic picture, which in a way was very representative of that point in time.
- Thus the results will be more representative of the least advantaged children in New York.
- Did a majority of American film spectators live in large cities before the 1940s, or were small town and country viewers more representative of the overall audience?
- The 125,000 Cubans who arrived from the port of Mariel in the spring of 1980 were more representative of the home country.
- User's Guide has a few advantages over its predecessors: by benefit of its timing, it's much broader and perhaps more representative of their two decades of prodigious output.
- In the absence of a more refined critique, Gritten's polemic seems more representative of that special, English resistance to theory than of something more relevant and positive.
- The song flies at an exceptional rate with Dolph screaming like a wild-man, which happens to be very representative of their live performance.
- They are late pieces - simple, modest, and not very representative of the composer.
- But with the online gaming explosion of recent years, gamers have become a more sophisticated lot, and are now more representative of the general population.
- Voting rights should be rejiggered to make the IMF more representative of the world, and a more attractive forum for Asian nations.
- It is almost as if by preventing modern development the US has created the conditions for the re-emergence of a state of affairs more representative of the 14th or 15th centuries.
- However, the business elite is scarcely more representative of the population than it was a century ago.
- They are much more representative of modern European attitudes.
- Making the work force more representative of the population has always been one of his top goals.
- Toleration of different points of view and conclusions would be more representative of the open society.
- He was perhaps the most original of African American poets and, in the breadth and variety of his work, assuredly the most representative of African American writers.
- Fuller's main interest, however, is not in religious thinkers who were most representative of their times but in those who rebelled against their times.
- Mr Kathrens has selected forty three of what he considers ‘the most representative of the styles and architectural progressions’ of New York's great houses.
Synonyms
symbolic, emblematic, evocative
1. 3.1 (of art) representational.
  the bust involves a high degree of representative abstraction
  Example sentencesExamples
  Johannesburg seems to be bringing sufficient elements and materials from which an artist could draw from when producing a true representative work of art.
  In a few paintings, abstract and representative imagery meet.
  Smith translates complicated images of ‘accidental realities’ into film and photography as representative modes, which may provide an illusion of control over life.
  The great three-bay Crucifixion in S. Giacomo, filled with incident and genre detail but controlled by a compositional rigour looking both to Giotto and to Roman relief sculpture, is representative.
4Philosophy
Relating to mental representation.

noun rɛprɪˈzɛntətɪvˌrɛprəˈzɛn(t)ədɪv

1A person chosen or appointed to act or speak for another or others.
the Duke of Gloucester would attend the coronation as the representative of his father, King George V
Example sentencesExamples
- A special Commission is appointed, representing clergy, bishops, laity and a representative of the Church overseas; the Prime Minister appoints the chairman.
- All public representatives have to be sensible and intelligent and address this in a responsible way.
- Aer Lingus is not speaking to Impact as a representative of cabin crew.
- The four-man team which visited Zambia for two days held talks with Bank of Zambia governor Caleb Fundanga on Monday before they wound up their tour with a corporate representatives meeting.
- Diplomats believe the employers' representatives could play a pivotal role in the Governing Body's deliberations.
- Services union Verdi said the plans had been forced through against the wishes of employee representatives.
- It has appointed a representative in Italy and is opening offices in the US and in Australia with Travel Partners this month.
- Grosso asked to speak to the GMAC representatives alone.
- Friends said it planned to focus on distributing its products, which include pensions and savings, through independent financial advisers and appointed representatives.
- Company representatives travel to Italy twice a year to inspect procedures and ensure quality.
- However, most of them cannot speak English and cannot afford a legal representative.
- The People's representatives have carte blanche to do exactly as they please.
- Independently appointed public representatives are involved in all stages of the process.
- Most of the Socialist parties' leaders and their representatives in the Knesset came from those groups.
- However, we spoke with representatives of the other groups that have aligned with the PMA over the past few years, and all of them have said that they did not lose their identity.
- The old woman's bowed head, her desire to disappear from the coppers' sight speaks volumes for the relationship between herself and the white representatives of the Australian State.
- But such things insert a physical and optical barrier between electors and their representatives, the public and its servants.
- The first resolution for the AGM covers bylaw changes related to the public representatives on the Professional Conduct Enquiry Committee.
- It is a market fuelled by the huge Indian diaspora - even so, Christie's has just appointed a full-time representative in Mumbai.
- He refuses, but later does speak to Tribunal representatives, although still says he will not travel to give evidence.
Synonyms
spokesperson, spokesman, spokeswoman, agent
deputy, substitute, stand-in, proxy, surrogate
1. 1.1 A person chosen or elected to speak and act on behalf of others in a legislative assembly or deliberative body.
  the District of Columbia's representative in Congress
  the Cambodian representative to the UN
  Example sentencesExamples
  In 1996 the UDP elected two representatives to the Northern Ireland Forum.
  To move in the opposite direction would be to further erode the position of Irish elected representatives, increasing that of an unelected judiciary.
  The British system of government is one where an executive body, appointed from the ranks of elected representatives, initiates policy and the legislative process.
  We want to make legislators and elected representatives accountable.
  The document, obtained by this newspaper, was submitted earlier and was circulated on the day by council officials to the newly elected representatives.
  A municipality must be the affair of its resident, and they must elect their representatives as stipulated by the Local Authorities act, but not all on the same day.
  As it is, it is difficult to understand why direct talks between all elected representatives and their respective parties are not already taking place as a matter of course.
  Most elected representatives on the unionist side have benefited from a system of selection.
  The California Chapter is a dynamic group, and they have elected the first Chapter representative to the Governing Council.
  Indeed, the Government of Quebec sought to control new university programs by setting up a reviewing body comprising representatives of the various universities themselves.
  It is their aim to have at least one representative elected to the Windhoek City Council.
  It was necessary to hold further elections for the two areas where vacancies occurred, and one representative was eventually elected with only 3 votes.
  Unions are institutions in which representatives negotiate on behalf of the membership and where leaders represent this membership in a variety of fora, including political ones.
  The Sinn Fein assembly member said that Trimble was in breach of his legal obligations in his threat to refuse to nominate its representatives to the ministerial council and cross-border bodies.
  Few women are in positions of real responsibility in Japanese commerce and only around five per cent of women are elected representatives in Japan's Parliament.
  Yet each of the local development bodies includes elected representatives on their boards.
  While VUWSA exec members are elected representatives, that does not give them free license to decide what Victoria University as a whole supports.
  A consensus in favour of Gurirab is steadily growing among the southern African states which have not had a local representative elected to the position since the establishment of the organisation.
  The Assembly included representatives not only of three counties of Pennsylvania, but also of the three lower counties of Delaware.
  The permanent forum is a body of 16 representatives, half of them nominated by indigenous organisations and half by U.N. member states.
  Synonyms
  Member of Parliament, MP, Member
  councillor
  North American Member of Congress, congressman, congresswoman, senator
2. 1.2 A delegate who attends a conference, negotiations, etc., so as to represent the interests of another person or group.
  a PLO representative attending a meeting in Damascus
  Example sentencesExamples
  The Labour Court is composed of union leaders and representatives of the employers association - a typical corporative construction.
  Though many of the interest group representatives in favor of repeal indicated that the time for Glass-Steagall reform was urgent, legislators did not possess that same feeling of urgency.
  It was not delegated to the representatives of the people, nor to so-called experts hired by them.
  The site was convincing enough to earn them an invite to a conference in Vienna as representatives of the WTO.
  They have the right to talk to employees and safety representatives, take photographs and samples, and to impound dangerous equipment.
  They are usually developed through a joint initiative between employers and employee representatives, with the help of retained professional advisers.
  If they showed interest, a further meeting with some employee representatives could be held to outline a proposal to submit to the next senior management meeting in a month's time.
  Nebraska farmers and agribusiness representatives interested in learning about emerging technologies and sharing on-farm experiences founded the association.
  For instance, in Germany there are much tighter institutional constraints and legislative requirements surrounding consultation with employees and their representatives than exist in the UK.
  About 160 Japanese company representatives attended the seminar.
  Labour markets are notoriously complex to analyse, with many labour market outcomes being the result of complex negotiations between employers and labour representatives within a bilateral monopoly framework.
  In step two, managers, key employees and a Your Training Manager account representative attend a one-day classroom program at the customer's location.
  One type typically included branch/unit Heads, or their delegated representatives.
  July 31 2001: Gateway tells its 900 staff to appoint employee representatives for consultations with the company over future redundancies in Dublin.
  It was revealed on Wednesday this week that Meatco's management and employee representatives have failed to persuade employees of the Windhoek abattoir to work overtime.
  NGO members as well as interested individuals and representatives attended the meeting from companies and relevant governmental agencies.
  And the new agency can get involved in rule-making as the representative of injured workers.
  If your workplace is unionised, it is generally negotiated with union representatives.
  ‘We are currently negotiating with employee representatives and we hope to shed 100 jobs over the next year,’ she said.
  About 100 workers' representatives attended the hearing, but Sony was only represented by two Indonesian assistant managers.
  Synonyms
  delegate, commissioner, ambassador, attaché, envoy, emissary, chargé, chargé d'affaires, commissary, deputy, aide
  Scottish depute
  Canadian &amp Australian agent general
  Roman Catholic Church nuncio
  archaic legate, factor
3. 1.3 An agent of a firm who travels to potential clients to sell its products.
  a sales representative for Norwich Union
  Example sentencesExamples
  ‘Harwood's sales representatives already have relationships with the clients and know their needs and wants,’ he said.
  Nokia sales representatives don't talk about their products being the fastest or the lightest on the market, but they do talk about the great technology that lets customers communicate.
  Sales representatives were often unethical and willing to tell a client anything to sell a plant.
  If there is a question on the appropriate solvent for a product, check with a representative of the product manufacturer.
  Rocks joined Alfred twenty years ago as a sales representative who traveled to music stores throughout North America.
  Recently I have had a few e-mails from sales representatives in regional brokerage offices who say they are the only one in their large offices who understand this secular bear market.
  You and your sales representatives must be passionate about a piece of consignment sculpture, or the incentive to promote it will lag behind the other pieces you've poured money into.
  Many are extending their show specials, relying heavily on telephones and stepping up the one-on-one visits of their sales representatives.
  When IPA sales representatives first solicited their business, Doug Hassell and Kim Hudlow knew nothing about John Burgess or his company.
  For larger quantities, wholesale seed catalogues and seed company sales representatives may provide a wider selection of cultivars as well as wholesale pricing.
  The glossy pamphlets are crammed with cosmetics, but this ritual has become less about racking up sales of lipstick and face cream and more about a hunt for people, specifically future Avon sales representatives.
  Learn why a growing number of Canadian employers are introducing employment agreements for their employees-from senior executives to sales representatives.
  Wilbur-Ellis helps retail customers by making on-farm visits and providing agronomy support to the dealer's sales representatives, Ullom says.
  GlaxoSmithKline, with its vast network of sales representatives around the world, markets and sells for other drug companies.
  As a result, there is now a combined sales force of more than 2,000 representatives selling Altace to an expanded market.
  He told me to ‘be a detective,’ and to grill product representatives with tough, thoughtful questions.
  Take Five eMobile is our new solution allowing sales representatives to enter orders and find up-to-the-minute customer information while on the road.
  Gatekeepers can take a number of forms - a buying manager's personal assistant barring calls from sales representatives has the effect of screening out a number of possible choices.
  He had invited me along to hear a motivational speech that he would deliver later in the day to sales representatives of Reynolds and Reynolds Co., a maker of auto-industry software.
  We encouraged them to spend time with sales representatives.
  Synonyms
  commercial traveller, travelling salesman, salesman, saleswoman, agent, traveller
  informal rep, knight of the road
  North American informal drummer
  British archaic commercial
4. 1.4 An employee of a travel company who lives in a resort and looks after the needs of its holidaymakers.
  make your own way to the Valley Inn, where you will be contacted by our tour representative
  Example sentencesExamples
  We expressed an interest in seeing it, and two days later the Tour East representative at the hotel informed us that one plant was in flower (at park grid reference G19).
  During the ski season, the company employs a further 20 part-time representatives in each of its resorts.
  They'll arrive in Langkawi, where they will be met by a representative from the travel agent and taken by private car to the five star deluxe Tangung Rhu Hotel, on the north of the island.
  This tour can be booked locally with the travel representative.
  A travel representative will meet them at the airport, bring them to their guesthouse and run through the route they've chosen for the next 13 days.
  The tour representative is a mistress of the revels, who incites the children to even greater excesses than they can imagine for themselves, which eventually results in the death of one of them on his 21st birthday.
  It's important to remember if you are travelling under a package deal to let your travel representative know as soon as possible about any problems you experience to allow them to try to sort them out.
2An example of a class or group.
fossil representatives of lampreys and hagfishes
Example sentencesExamples
- The level of dissatisfaction could be seen by the fact that even representatives of the young middle classes were often upset.
- Agee refuses to cast his sharecroppers as representatives of a class only, insisting instead on the complex interaction between type and particular individual, between commodity and artifact.
- Moreover, as Kempe travels throughout England and the rest of Europe, she often finds herself confronting less than exemplary representatives of her Lord.
- The representatives of management and the upper classes are mainly well-loved actors going - brilliantly - through familiar paces.
Synonyms
example, specimen
exemplar, exemplification, type, archetype, illustration

Derivatives

representatively

adverb rɛprɪˈzɛntətɪvliˌrɛprəˈzɛn(t)ədɪvli

It is much less adept at counting employees in small businesses, simply because there are too many small enterprises to representatively sample them.
Example sentencesExamples
- A left lower lobectomy was performed, and sectioning of the lung demonstrated a 1.3-cm firm, tan-pink mass which was representatively frozen.
- Each claims that it has standing to sue representatively, on behalf of its members, and for the injuries the organization has itself suffered.
- The revolutionaries of 1789 assumed that national sovereignty could only be exercised representatively, but within ten years Napoleon had begun to show how it could be appropriated to legitimize dictatorship and even monarchy.
- We had only six L. marinas, so we may not have sampled the polymorphism within that species representatively.

representativeness

noun rɛprɪˈzɛntətɪvnəsˌrɛprəˈzɛn(t)ədɪvnəs

For example, new employees frequently are judged with respect to their representativeness of previously selected employees.
Example sentencesExamples
- What is represented in litigation is only a snapshot of the broader legal landscape, and this representativeness needs to be accounted for.
- Writers who ignore or gloss over the audience cannot fully understand the appeal of popular figures, explore the music's contingent social effects, or contest the representativeness of existing accounts.
- What is obvious is that, despite this rainbow of representativeness, one notable absence was the working-class, white male.
- The issue of representativeness was of little significance because of my predominantly qualitative and narrative research approach.

Definition of representative in US English:

representative

adjectiveˌreprəˈzen(t)ədivˌrɛprəˈzɛn(t)ədɪv

1Typical of a class, group, or body of opinion.
these courses are representative of those taken by most Harvard undergraduates
Example sentencesExamples
- Here is a representative synopsis of current opinion.
- Maximizing utility for increasing risk aversion shows the decreases in profit that the representative farm would be willing to accept for decreases in variability of net returns.
- You're dealing with very iconic, representative characters.
- A representative farm that utilizes typical production methods in the major cotton production region is constructed for Georgia.
- The entrant must perform a program that includes a significant representative selection from each of the following.
- An official of the independent Financial Supervisory Service said that as of this month, seven Japanese banks have branches in South Korea and six others have representative offices.
- But the poem is representative not exceptional.
- Consider the following situation: a representative consumer is faced with a rise in price of a product he has been buying, even though its price to begin with is relatively high.
- It seems likely that it was put here as a reference for the other two, since many of the scenes from this movie appear in the documentary also included in this set, and as a representative talkie he did for MGM.
- Secondly, why would these representative strategies indicate that Julie's mind is ‘a place of absence’?
- The distinction is now moot; knowledge rhetorically induced from a representative anecdote will ironically contain both of Ransom's two knowledges.
- Jane is both an effectively realized individual and a representative figure, a spokesperson for the African American experience from slavery times to the era of the civil rights movement.
- The suppliers of bond ETFs get around the liquidity problem by using representative sampling, which simply means tracking only a sufficient number of bonds to represent an index.
- For one thing, we will have to ignore a good deal of commentary presented by nameless characters, by representative characters, and by lay figures who appear for one important speech and are never seen again.
- Much of this story is familiar to specialists in the field, above all through the varied and often exhaustive archival research done in Germany over the years for each of the representative museums.
- She therefore rejects her position as someone who has ‘special significance’ in the narrative by refusing to play the role of representative victim assigned to her.
- The more representative 1.4 S model, which also has air conditioning, keyless entry, power windows and mirror adjustment, costs €18,695.
- ‘We really need a representative office in China,’ says Wang.
- In other words, her work is meant to compliment representative women as a means of facing down both negative female representations and the feminine false consciousness that participates in their transmission.
- This has involved the development of new representative mechanisms at the European level which maintain the regulatory gap through the enduring dominance of subsidiarity.
Synonyms
typical, prototypical, characteristic, illustrative, indicative
1. 1.1 Containing typical examples of many or all types.
  a representative sample of young people in the South
  Example sentencesExamples
  A representative sample of Australian sound designs, from both indoor and outdoor sites help to communicate this national practice.
  A wide blade putty knife is excellent for breaking up the soil and insuring a representative sample.
  As a result, the dance companies whose data appears here are not a scientifically representative sample of the dance field as a whole.
  A representative sample poll of 4,000 people has a plus or minus one per cent chance of correctly calling the outcome of a national or constituency vote.
  Follow these instructions carefully to avoid contamination and to obtain a representative sample.
  It is hard to say how representative a sample this is.
  Collect a representative sample - no less than 5 lb in a paper bag (good idea to double bag) and directly transport or mail to a laboratory for testing.
  By getting e-mail addresses of a representative sample of the electorate, we can invite 50,000 to 100,000 people to participate at once.
  It eliminated 21 industry groups that were either too small to provide a representative sample or were of little relevance to most readers.
  A soil probe can help provide a representative sample.
  Nor can it be claimed that the participants constitute a statistically representative sample of the industry.
  Let's consider his latest among a representative sample of 2004's notable short story collections.
  We shall discuss some representative examples.
  No figures are given for the number of individuals interviewed, but instead we are informed that data was taken from a representative sample of 202 companies.
  The sheer number of illustrations is one of the book's main strengths and it is reasonably unlikely that any attempt to research a specific decanter will fail to locate a representative example.
  The final selection of student projects for the Archiprix is not a representative sample of what is going on below the surface.
  A show currently at New York's Janos Gat Gallery features Ross's latest works, along with representative examples of earlier series.
  Getting a representative sample of such a diverse and unconcentrated industry is difficult but essential.
  The final data is then weighted to these demographic parameters as a final check to ensure the sample is entirely representative.
  A representative sample of this spectacular art collection is exhibited on three floors in 43 galleries, some of which are graced by exquisite stucco ceilings.
2(of a legislative or deliberative assembly) consisting of people chosen to act and speak on behalf of a wider group.
Example sentencesExamples
- Their representative body, the Irish Hardware and Building Materials Association, was not prepared to make an official comment.
- Leading trade union figures and the employers' representative body, Ibec, will battle it out over the next two months, with no guarantees that a new partnership deal will result from the talks.
- As the representative body of the British Jewish community, we have received a number of complaints about it from Jewish people in many parts of the world.
- The size of this representative governing body has changed: formerly made up of 121 members, the new council has approximately 100 voting members.
- In the UK, large companies have traditionally operated a system of workers' councils which also allow workers a say in the management of the business by allocating them places on such a representative body.
- Industry sources said representative bodies such as the American Chamber of Commerce could play an increasingly important role in future.
- For instance, trade unions, farmers' groups and other representative bodies are among the most powerful lobbyists.
- Nacba, which is the representative body of over 270 Irish gift stores, works closely with Irish manufacturers.
- Thus, the institutions of the European Union that should be representative bodies are indeed so.
- The Minister for Health, Micheal Martin, will pitch the proposals to a huge range of interest groups and representative bodies.
- A Loya Jirga, a sort of representative national assembly summoned to sanction a draft new constitution, seemed to have been unimpressed.
- The company told the Blessington Forum, a representative body of the town's businesses, that it was considering turning the dump into a legal landfill.
- Kubba advocates quick national elections for a second, broadly representative council to perform functions such as drafting a constitution.
- The Conference of Religious in Ireland, the representative body for the orders, recently called for more land to be made available for social housing.
- The Exhibition has been organised by the Angolan Industrial Association, a representative body for the Angolan business sector.
- Respond drafted an alternative plan and then entered into consultations with locals, representative organisations and councillors from the area.
- As the representative body for sporting shooting in the UK, It is launching the campaign of training and awareness to ensure that all airgun owners can practise their sport legally and safely.
- The advertising industry's representative body, the Institute of Advertising Practitioners in Ireland, welcomed the news.
1. 2.1 (of a government or political system) based on elected representatives.
  free elections and representative democracy
  Example sentencesExamples
  It is precisely to temper the passions of the people that we resort to representative rather than direct democracy.
  There is still an opportunity for the Bush Administration to set Iraq onto a political path leading to representative democracy.
  It's really a strategic interest of the U.S. to see progress toward representative government and free government and free markets and economic development.
  Unfavorable governments in favor of big business therefore remain in power at the cost of a representative government.
  But perhaps the most important issue you start to confront is that of our representative democracy becoming ingrained, insular, and angry.
  None of this is an argument against representative government.
  The main prerequisite of representative democracy is based on an assumption that an average citizen enjoys free and equal access to any political debate.
  But it is realistic to hope it can be better, that it can be somewhat stable, that the government can be somewhat representative and we can live with that.
  Invariably, multiparty elections in Nigeria were meant to encourage the expression of the needs of different interest groups and thereby create a representative plurality that would equate to true democracy.
  If representative democracy worked properly there would be little to complain about if parliament chose to deliver (or, indeed, not to deliver) on social and economic rights.
  The reason we have representative government is because we elect these people to spend a little time thinking that the issues, sometimes we don't have the time to do that.
  Since by its very nature the power to issue money is unlimited, the new monetary regime flies in the face of the principle of representative government of limited and enumerated powers.
  It could, I suppose, be an agglomeration of similar moods, imaginatively totted up to form a persuasive total: mood as analogous to representative democracy.
  I know she wanted to make democracy more representative, but were there certain pieces of legislation that she worked on to achieve that end?
  Measured by Enlightenment standards, this is a perfectly representative democracy, answering individual wants in a time always tending towards ideal simultaneity.
  Dempsey claimed it was strangling national political debate and undermining effective representative parliamentary democracy.
  The draft constitution claims that the workings of the union ‘shall be founded on the principle of representative democracy’.
  Another northern area of the country declared itself the Republic of Puntland, and has made strides towards establishing a representative government, according to analysts.
  All told, representative democracy was in a state of ‘collapse’.
  The United States is a responsive representative democracy.
  Synonyms
  elected, elective, chosen, democratic, popular, nominated, appointed, commissioned
3Serving as a portrayal or symbol of something.
the show should be more representative of how women really are
Example sentencesExamples
- Thus the results will be more representative of the least advantaged children in New York.
- Did a majority of American film spectators live in large cities before the 1940s, or were small town and country viewers more representative of the overall audience?
- Voting rights should be rejiggered to make the IMF more representative of the world, and a more attractive forum for Asian nations.
- Making the work force more representative of the population has always been one of his top goals.
- It is almost as if by preventing modern development the US has created the conditions for the re-emergence of a state of affairs more representative of the 14th or 15th centuries.
- Mr Kathrens has selected forty three of what he considers ‘the most representative of the styles and architectural progressions’ of New York's great houses.
- So in a way, it was a very positive iconic picture, which in a way was very representative of that point in time.
- He was perhaps the most original of African American poets and, in the breadth and variety of his work, assuredly the most representative of African American writers.
- The actors throw themselves around the space, with little heed for the physical risks that they take, and their physical movement is the most representative of their emotions.
- Fuller's main interest, however, is not in religious thinkers who were most representative of their times but in those who rebelled against their times.
- The 125,000 Cubans who arrived from the port of Mariel in the spring of 1980 were more representative of the home country.
- However, the business elite is scarcely more representative of the population than it was a century ago.
- The song flies at an exceptional rate with Dolph screaming like a wild-man, which happens to be very representative of their live performance.
- They are much more representative of modern European attitudes.
- In the absence of a more refined critique, Gritten's polemic seems more representative of that special, English resistance to theory than of something more relevant and positive.
- But with the online gaming explosion of recent years, gamers have become a more sophisticated lot, and are now more representative of the general population.
- I tried to make music that suited the artist and reflected the signature of that artist, and was very representative of who they were.
- Toleration of different points of view and conclusions would be more representative of the open society.
- User's Guide has a few advantages over its predecessors: by benefit of its timing, it's much broader and perhaps more representative of their two decades of prodigious output.
- They are late pieces - simple, modest, and not very representative of the composer.
Synonyms
symbolic, emblematic, evocative
1. 3.1 (of art) representational.
  the bust involves a high degree of representative abstraction
  Example sentencesExamples
  Smith translates complicated images of ‘accidental realities’ into film and photography as representative modes, which may provide an illusion of control over life.
  The great three-bay Crucifixion in S. Giacomo, filled with incident and genre detail but controlled by a compositional rigour looking both to Giotto and to Roman relief sculpture, is representative.
  Johannesburg seems to be bringing sufficient elements and materials from which an artist could draw from when producing a true representative work of art.
  In a few paintings, abstract and representative imagery meet.
4Philosophy
Relating to mental representation.

nounˌreprəˈzen(t)ədivˌrɛprəˈzɛn(t)ədɪv

1A person chosen or appointed to act or speak for another or others.
the Duke of Gloucester would attend the coronation as the representative of his father, King George V
Example sentencesExamples
- The first resolution for the AGM covers bylaw changes related to the public representatives on the Professional Conduct Enquiry Committee.
- However, we spoke with representatives of the other groups that have aligned with the PMA over the past few years, and all of them have said that they did not lose their identity.
- The old woman's bowed head, her desire to disappear from the coppers' sight speaks volumes for the relationship between herself and the white representatives of the Australian State.
- Company representatives travel to Italy twice a year to inspect procedures and ensure quality.
- It is a market fuelled by the huge Indian diaspora - even so, Christie's has just appointed a full-time representative in Mumbai.
- The four-man team which visited Zambia for two days held talks with Bank of Zambia governor Caleb Fundanga on Monday before they wound up their tour with a corporate representatives meeting.
- Services union Verdi said the plans had been forced through against the wishes of employee representatives.
- He refuses, but later does speak to Tribunal representatives, although still says he will not travel to give evidence.
- Friends said it planned to focus on distributing its products, which include pensions and savings, through independent financial advisers and appointed representatives.
- Grosso asked to speak to the GMAC representatives alone.
- But such things insert a physical and optical barrier between electors and their representatives, the public and its servants.
- Independently appointed public representatives are involved in all stages of the process.
- Most of the Socialist parties' leaders and their representatives in the Knesset came from those groups.
- All public representatives have to be sensible and intelligent and address this in a responsible way.
- It has appointed a representative in Italy and is opening offices in the US and in Australia with Travel Partners this month.
- A special Commission is appointed, representing clergy, bishops, laity and a representative of the Church overseas; the Prime Minister appoints the chairman.
- The People's representatives have carte blanche to do exactly as they please.
- Aer Lingus is not speaking to Impact as a representative of cabin crew.
- Diplomats believe the employers' representatives could play a pivotal role in the Governing Body's deliberations.
- However, most of them cannot speak English and cannot afford a legal representative.
Synonyms
spokesperson, spokesman, spokeswoman, agent
deputy, substitute, stand-in, proxy, surrogate
1. 1.1 A person chosen or elected to speak and act on behalf of others in a legislative assembly or deliberative body.
  Example sentencesExamples
  To move in the opposite direction would be to further erode the position of Irish elected representatives, increasing that of an unelected judiciary.
  It was necessary to hold further elections for the two areas where vacancies occurred, and one representative was eventually elected with only 3 votes.
  It is their aim to have at least one representative elected to the Windhoek City Council.
  The British system of government is one where an executive body, appointed from the ranks of elected representatives, initiates policy and the legislative process.
  Indeed, the Government of Quebec sought to control new university programs by setting up a reviewing body comprising representatives of the various universities themselves.
  The permanent forum is a body of 16 representatives, half of them nominated by indigenous organisations and half by U.N. member states.
  The document, obtained by this newspaper, was submitted earlier and was circulated on the day by council officials to the newly elected representatives.
  A municipality must be the affair of its resident, and they must elect their representatives as stipulated by the Local Authorities act, but not all on the same day.
  A consensus in favour of Gurirab is steadily growing among the southern African states which have not had a local representative elected to the position since the establishment of the organisation.
  Few women are in positions of real responsibility in Japanese commerce and only around five per cent of women are elected representatives in Japan's Parliament.
  We want to make legislators and elected representatives accountable.
  The California Chapter is a dynamic group, and they have elected the first Chapter representative to the Governing Council.
  The Assembly included representatives not only of three counties of Pennsylvania, but also of the three lower counties of Delaware.
  In 1996 the UDP elected two representatives to the Northern Ireland Forum.
  While VUWSA exec members are elected representatives, that does not give them free license to decide what Victoria University as a whole supports.
  Unions are institutions in which representatives negotiate on behalf of the membership and where leaders represent this membership in a variety of fora, including political ones.
  Yet each of the local development bodies includes elected representatives on their boards.
  As it is, it is difficult to understand why direct talks between all elected representatives and their respective parties are not already taking place as a matter of course.
  Most elected representatives on the unionist side have benefited from a system of selection.
  The Sinn Fein assembly member said that Trimble was in breach of his legal obligations in his threat to refuse to nominate its representatives to the ministerial council and cross-border bodies.
  Synonyms
  member of parliament, mp, member
2. 1.2 A delegate who attends a conference, negotiations, legal hearing, etc., so as to represent the interests of another person or group.
  Example sentencesExamples
  It was revealed on Wednesday this week that Meatco's management and employee representatives have failed to persuade employees of the Windhoek abattoir to work overtime.
  They have the right to talk to employees and safety representatives, take photographs and samples, and to impound dangerous equipment.
  One type typically included branch/unit Heads, or their delegated representatives.
  Nebraska farmers and agribusiness representatives interested in learning about emerging technologies and sharing on-farm experiences founded the association.
  About 100 workers' representatives attended the hearing, but Sony was only represented by two Indonesian assistant managers.
  NGO members as well as interested individuals and representatives attended the meeting from companies and relevant governmental agencies.
  They are usually developed through a joint initiative between employers and employee representatives, with the help of retained professional advisers.
  July 31 2001: Gateway tells its 900 staff to appoint employee representatives for consultations with the company over future redundancies in Dublin.
  It was not delegated to the representatives of the people, nor to so-called experts hired by them.
  If they showed interest, a further meeting with some employee representatives could be held to outline a proposal to submit to the next senior management meeting in a month's time.
  The Labour Court is composed of union leaders and representatives of the employers association - a typical corporative construction.
  Though many of the interest group representatives in favor of repeal indicated that the time for Glass-Steagall reform was urgent, legislators did not possess that same feeling of urgency.
  In step two, managers, key employees and a Your Training Manager account representative attend a one-day classroom program at the customer's location.
  About 160 Japanese company representatives attended the seminar.
  And the new agency can get involved in rule-making as the representative of injured workers.
  For instance, in Germany there are much tighter institutional constraints and legislative requirements surrounding consultation with employees and their representatives than exist in the UK.
  The site was convincing enough to earn them an invite to a conference in Vienna as representatives of the WTO.
  If your workplace is unionised, it is generally negotiated with union representatives.
  ‘We are currently negotiating with employee representatives and we hope to shed 100 jobs over the next year,’ she said.
  Labour markets are notoriously complex to analyse, with many labour market outcomes being the result of complex negotiations between employers and labour representatives within a bilateral monopoly framework.
  Synonyms
  delegate, commissioner, ambassador, attaché, envoy, emissary, chargé, chargé d'affaires, commissary, deputy, aide
3. 1.3 An agent of a firm who travels to potential clients to sell its products.
  Example sentencesExamples
  Nokia sales representatives don't talk about their products being the fastest or the lightest on the market, but they do talk about the great technology that lets customers communicate.
  Learn why a growing number of Canadian employers are introducing employment agreements for their employees-from senior executives to sales representatives.
  For larger quantities, wholesale seed catalogues and seed company sales representatives may provide a wider selection of cultivars as well as wholesale pricing.
  Many are extending their show specials, relying heavily on telephones and stepping up the one-on-one visits of their sales representatives.
  When IPA sales representatives first solicited their business, Doug Hassell and Kim Hudlow knew nothing about John Burgess or his company.
  We encouraged them to spend time with sales representatives.
  He had invited me along to hear a motivational speech that he would deliver later in the day to sales representatives of Reynolds and Reynolds Co., a maker of auto-industry software.
  Wilbur-Ellis helps retail customers by making on-farm visits and providing agronomy support to the dealer's sales representatives, Ullom says.
  As a result, there is now a combined sales force of more than 2,000 representatives selling Altace to an expanded market.
  Gatekeepers can take a number of forms - a buying manager's personal assistant barring calls from sales representatives has the effect of screening out a number of possible choices.
  Recently I have had a few e-mails from sales representatives in regional brokerage offices who say they are the only one in their large offices who understand this secular bear market.
  The glossy pamphlets are crammed with cosmetics, but this ritual has become less about racking up sales of lipstick and face cream and more about a hunt for people, specifically future Avon sales representatives.
  If there is a question on the appropriate solvent for a product, check with a representative of the product manufacturer.
  You and your sales representatives must be passionate about a piece of consignment sculpture, or the incentive to promote it will lag behind the other pieces you've poured money into.
  Take Five eMobile is our new solution allowing sales representatives to enter orders and find up-to-the-minute customer information while on the road.
  ‘Harwood's sales representatives already have relationships with the clients and know their needs and wants,’ he said.
  GlaxoSmithKline, with its vast network of sales representatives around the world, markets and sells for other drug companies.
  Sales representatives were often unethical and willing to tell a client anything to sell a plant.
  He told me to ‘be a detective,’ and to grill product representatives with tough, thoughtful questions.
  Rocks joined Alfred twenty years ago as a sales representative who traveled to music stores throughout North America.
  Synonyms
  commercial traveller, travelling salesman, salesman, saleswoman, agent, traveller
4. 1.4 An employee of a travel company who looks after the needs of its vacationing clients.
  Example sentencesExamples
  We expressed an interest in seeing it, and two days later the Tour East representative at the hotel informed us that one plant was in flower (at park grid reference G19).
  They'll arrive in Langkawi, where they will be met by a representative from the travel agent and taken by private car to the five star deluxe Tangung Rhu Hotel, on the north of the island.
  It's important to remember if you are travelling under a package deal to let your travel representative know as soon as possible about any problems you experience to allow them to try to sort them out.
  A travel representative will meet them at the airport, bring them to their guesthouse and run through the route they've chosen for the next 13 days.
  This tour can be booked locally with the travel representative.
  During the ski season, the company employs a further 20 part-time representatives in each of its resorts.
  The tour representative is a mistress of the revels, who incites the children to even greater excesses than they can imagine for themselves, which eventually results in the death of one of them on his 21st birthday.
2An example of a class or group.
fossil representatives of lampreys and hagfishes
Example sentencesExamples
- The level of dissatisfaction could be seen by the fact that even representatives of the young middle classes were often upset.
- Moreover, as Kempe travels throughout England and the rest of Europe, she often finds herself confronting less than exemplary representatives of her Lord.
- The representatives of management and the upper classes are mainly well-loved actors going - brilliantly - through familiar paces.
- Agee refuses to cast his sharecroppers as representatives of a class only, insisting instead on the complex interaction between type and particular individual, between commodity and artifact.
Synonyms
example, specimen

单词	representative
释义	Definition of representative in English: representative adjective rɛprɪˈzɛntətɪvˌrɛprəˈzɛn(t)ədɪv 1Typical of a class, group, or body of opinion. Churchill was not properly representative of influential opinion in Britain Example sentencesExamples Secondly, why would these representative strategies indicate that Julie's mind is ‘a place of absence’? An official of the independent Financial Supervisory Service said that as of this month, seven Japanese banks have branches in South Korea and six others have representative offices. The suppliers of bond ETFs get around the liquidity problem by using representative sampling, which simply means tracking only a sufficient number of bonds to represent an index. Consider the following situation: a representative consumer is faced with a rise in price of a product he has been buying, even though its price to begin with is relatively high. She therefore rejects her position as someone who has ‘special significance’ in the narrative by refusing to play the role of representative victim assigned to her. A representative farm that utilizes typical production methods in the major cotton production region is constructed for Georgia. ‘We really need a representative office in China,’ says Wang. Maximizing utility for increasing risk aversion shows the decreases in profit that the representative farm would be willing to accept for decreases in variability of net returns. The more representative 1.4 S model, which also has air conditioning, keyless entry, power windows and mirror adjustment, costs €18,695. Jane is both an effectively realized individual and a representative figure, a spokesperson for the African American experience from slavery times to the era of the civil rights movement. For one thing, we will have to ignore a good deal of commentary presented by nameless characters, by representative characters, and by lay figures who appear for one important speech and are never seen again. The distinction is now moot; knowledge rhetorically induced from a representative anecdote will ironically contain both of Ransom's two knowledges. It seems likely that it was put here as a reference for the other two, since many of the scenes from this movie appear in the documentary also included in this set, and as a representative talkie he did for MGM. But the poem is representative not exceptional. Here is a representative synopsis of current opinion. This has involved the development of new representative mechanisms at the European level which maintain the regulatory gap through the enduring dominance of subsidiarity. In other words, her work is meant to compliment representative women as a means of facing down both negative female representations and the feminine false consciousness that participates in their transmission. You're dealing with very iconic, representative characters. Much of this story is familiar to specialists in the field, above all through the varied and often exhaustive archival research done in Germany over the years for each of the representative museums. The entrant must perform a program that includes a significant representative selection from each of the following. Synonyms typical, prototypical, characteristic, illustrative, indicative archetypal, paradigmatic, exemplary 1.1 Containing typical examples of many or all types. a representative sample of young people in Scotland Example sentencesExamples The final data is then weighted to these demographic parameters as a final check to ensure the sample is entirely representative. It eliminated 21 industry groups that were either too small to provide a representative sample or were of little relevance to most readers. As a result, the dance companies whose data appears here are not a scientifically representative sample of the dance field as a whole. A show currently at New York's Janos Gat Gallery features Ross's latest works, along with representative examples of earlier series. A representative sample poll of 4,000 people has a plus or minus one per cent chance of correctly calling the outcome of a national or constituency vote. We shall discuss some representative examples. A representative sample of Australian sound designs, from both indoor and outdoor sites help to communicate this national practice. A representative sample of this spectacular art collection is exhibited on three floors in 43 galleries, some of which are graced by exquisite stucco ceilings. No figures are given for the number of individuals interviewed, but instead we are informed that data was taken from a representative sample of 202 companies. Getting a representative sample of such a diverse and unconcentrated industry is difficult but essential. It is hard to say how representative a sample this is. Let's consider his latest among a representative sample of 2004's notable short story collections. Collect a representative sample - no less than 5 lb in a paper bag (good idea to double bag) and directly transport or mail to a laboratory for testing. A soil probe can help provide a representative sample. A wide blade putty knife is excellent for breaking up the soil and insuring a representative sample. The sheer number of illustrations is one of the book's main strengths and it is reasonably unlikely that any attempt to research a specific decanter will fail to locate a representative example. Follow these instructions carefully to avoid contamination and to obtain a representative sample. By getting e-mail addresses of a representative sample of the electorate, we can invite 50,000 to 100,000 people to participate at once. Nor can it be claimed that the participants constitute a statistically representative sample of the industry. The final selection of student projects for the Archiprix is not a representative sample of what is going on below the surface. 2(of a legislative assembly or deliberative body) consisting of people chosen to act and speak on behalf of a wider group. the new government lacked a representative assembly there was no representative body to fight for cricketers until 1968 Example sentencesExamples The size of this representative governing body has changed: formerly made up of 121 members, the new council has approximately 100 voting members. Industry sources said representative bodies such as the American Chamber of Commerce could play an increasingly important role in future. Their representative body, the Irish Hardware and Building Materials Association, was not prepared to make an official comment. The Exhibition has been organised by the Angolan Industrial Association, a representative body for the Angolan business sector. The Minister for Health, Micheal Martin, will pitch the proposals to a huge range of interest groups and representative bodies. The advertising industry's representative body, the Institute of Advertising Practitioners in Ireland, welcomed the news. Respond drafted an alternative plan and then entered into consultations with locals, representative organisations and councillors from the area. Leading trade union figures and the employers' representative body, Ibec, will battle it out over the next two months, with no guarantees that a new partnership deal will result from the talks. Nacba, which is the representative body of over 270 Irish gift stores, works closely with Irish manufacturers. The company told the Blessington Forum, a representative body of the town's businesses, that it was considering turning the dump into a legal landfill. A Loya Jirga, a sort of representative national assembly summoned to sanction a draft new constitution, seemed to have been unimpressed. For instance, trade unions, farmers' groups and other representative bodies are among the most powerful lobbyists. As the representative body for sporting shooting in the UK, It is launching the campaign of training and awareness to ensure that all airgun owners can practise their sport legally and safely. In the UK, large companies have traditionally operated a system of workers' councils which also allow workers a say in the management of the business by allocating them places on such a representative body. The Conference of Religious in Ireland, the representative body for the orders, recently called for more land to be made available for social housing. As the representative body of the British Jewish community, we have received a number of complaints about it from Jewish people in many parts of the world. Thus, the institutions of the European Union that should be representative bodies are indeed so. Kubba advocates quick national elections for a second, broadly representative council to perform functions such as drafting a constitution. 2.1 (of a government or political system) based on elected or chosen representatives. free elections and representative democracy Example sentencesExamples Measured by Enlightenment standards, this is a perfectly representative democracy, answering individual wants in a time always tending towards ideal simultaneity. Unfavorable governments in favor of big business therefore remain in power at the cost of a representative government. None of this is an argument against representative government. All told, representative democracy was in a state of ‘collapse’. Dempsey claimed it was strangling national political debate and undermining effective representative parliamentary democracy. The main prerequisite of representative democracy is based on an assumption that an average citizen enjoys free and equal access to any political debate. I know she wanted to make democracy more representative, but were there certain pieces of legislation that she worked on to achieve that end? Since by its very nature the power to issue money is unlimited, the new monetary regime flies in the face of the principle of representative government of limited and enumerated powers. Invariably, multiparty elections in Nigeria were meant to encourage the expression of the needs of different interest groups and thereby create a representative plurality that would equate to true democracy. The reason we have representative government is because we elect these people to spend a little time thinking that the issues, sometimes we don't have the time to do that. There is still an opportunity for the Bush Administration to set Iraq onto a political path leading to representative democracy. If representative democracy worked properly there would be little to complain about if parliament chose to deliver (or, indeed, not to deliver) on social and economic rights. The draft constitution claims that the workings of the union ‘shall be founded on the principle of representative democracy’. Another northern area of the country declared itself the Republic of Puntland, and has made strides towards establishing a representative government, according to analysts. The United States is a responsive representative democracy. It's really a strategic interest of the U.S. to see progress toward representative government and free government and free markets and economic development. It is precisely to temper the passions of the people that we resort to representative rather than direct democracy. But it is realistic to hope it can be better, that it can be somewhat stable, that the government can be somewhat representative and we can live with that. It could, I suppose, be an agglomeration of similar moods, imaginatively totted up to form a persuasive total: mood as analogous to representative democracy. But perhaps the most important issue you start to confront is that of our representative democracy becoming ingrained, insular, and angry. Synonyms elected, elective, chosen, democratic, popular, nominated, appointed, commissioned delegated, authorized, accredited, official 3Serving as a portrayal or symbol of something. the show would be more representative of how women really are Example sentencesExamples I tried to make music that suited the artist and reflected the signature of that artist, and was very representative of who they were. The actors throw themselves around the space, with little heed for the physical risks that they take, and their physical movement is the most representative of their emotions. So in a way, it was a very positive iconic picture, which in a way was very representative of that point in time. Thus the results will be more representative of the least advantaged children in New York. Did a majority of American film spectators live in large cities before the 1940s, or were small town and country viewers more representative of the overall audience? The 125,000 Cubans who arrived from the port of Mariel in the spring of 1980 were more representative of the home country. User's Guide has a few advantages over its predecessors: by benefit of its timing, it's much broader and perhaps more representative of their two decades of prodigious output. In the absence of a more refined critique, Gritten's polemic seems more representative of that special, English resistance to theory than of something more relevant and positive. The song flies at an exceptional rate with Dolph screaming like a wild-man, which happens to be very representative of their live performance. They are late pieces - simple, modest, and not very representative of the composer. But with the online gaming explosion of recent years, gamers have become a more sophisticated lot, and are now more representative of the general population. Voting rights should be rejiggered to make the IMF more representative of the world, and a more attractive forum for Asian nations. It is almost as if by preventing modern development the US has created the conditions for the re-emergence of a state of affairs more representative of the 14th or 15th centuries. However, the business elite is scarcely more representative of the population than it was a century ago. They are much more representative of modern European attitudes. Making the work force more representative of the population has always been one of his top goals. Toleration of different points of view and conclusions would be more representative of the open society. He was perhaps the most original of African American poets and, in the breadth and variety of his work, assuredly the most representative of African American writers. Fuller's main interest, however, is not in religious thinkers who were most representative of their times but in those who rebelled against their times. Mr Kathrens has selected forty three of what he considers ‘the most representative of the styles and architectural progressions’ of New York's great houses. Synonyms symbolic, emblematic, evocative 3.1 (of art) representational. the bust involves a high degree of representative abstraction Example sentencesExamples Johannesburg seems to be bringing sufficient elements and materials from which an artist could draw from when producing a true representative work of art. In a few paintings, abstract and representative imagery meet. Smith translates complicated images of ‘accidental realities’ into film and photography as representative modes, which may provide an illusion of control over life. The great three-bay Crucifixion in S. Giacomo, filled with incident and genre detail but controlled by a compositional rigour looking both to Giotto and to Roman relief sculpture, is representative. 4Philosophy Relating to mental representation. noun rɛprɪˈzɛntətɪvˌrɛprəˈzɛn(t)ədɪv 1A person chosen or appointed to act or speak for another or others. the Duke of Gloucester would attend the coronation as the representative of his father, King George V Example sentencesExamples A special Commission is appointed, representing clergy, bishops, laity and a representative of the Church overseas; the Prime Minister appoints the chairman. All public representatives have to be sensible and intelligent and address this in a responsible way. Aer Lingus is not speaking to Impact as a representative of cabin crew. The four-man team which visited Zambia for two days held talks with Bank of Zambia governor Caleb Fundanga on Monday before they wound up their tour with a corporate representatives meeting. Diplomats believe the employers' representatives could play a pivotal role in the Governing Body's deliberations. Services union Verdi said the plans had been forced through against the wishes of employee representatives. It has appointed a representative in Italy and is opening offices in the US and in Australia with Travel Partners this month. Grosso asked to speak to the GMAC representatives alone. Friends said it planned to focus on distributing its products, which include pensions and savings, through independent financial advisers and appointed representatives. Company representatives travel to Italy twice a year to inspect procedures and ensure quality. However, most of them cannot speak English and cannot afford a legal representative. The People's representatives have carte blanche to do exactly as they please. Independently appointed public representatives are involved in all stages of the process. Most of the Socialist parties' leaders and their representatives in the Knesset came from those groups. However, we spoke with representatives of the other groups that have aligned with the PMA over the past few years, and all of them have said that they did not lose their identity. The old woman's bowed head, her desire to disappear from the coppers' sight speaks volumes for the relationship between herself and the white representatives of the Australian State. But such things insert a physical and optical barrier between electors and their representatives, the public and its servants. The first resolution for the AGM covers bylaw changes related to the public representatives on the Professional Conduct Enquiry Committee. It is a market fuelled by the huge Indian diaspora - even so, Christie's has just appointed a full-time representative in Mumbai. He refuses, but later does speak to Tribunal representatives, although still says he will not travel to give evidence. Synonyms spokesperson, spokesman, spokeswoman, agent deputy, substitute, stand-in, proxy, surrogate 1.1 A person chosen or elected to speak and act on behalf of others in a legislative assembly or deliberative body. the District of Columbia's representative in Congress the Cambodian representative to the UN Example sentencesExamples In 1996 the UDP elected two representatives to the Northern Ireland Forum. To move in the opposite direction would be to further erode the position of Irish elected representatives, increasing that of an unelected judiciary. The British system of government is one where an executive body, appointed from the ranks of elected representatives, initiates policy and the legislative process. We want to make legislators and elected representatives accountable. The document, obtained by this newspaper, was submitted earlier and was circulated on the day by council officials to the newly elected representatives. A municipality must be the affair of its resident, and they must elect their representatives as stipulated by the Local Authorities act, but not all on the same day. As it is, it is difficult to understand why direct talks between all elected representatives and their respective parties are not already taking place as a matter of course. Most elected representatives on the unionist side have benefited from a system of selection. The California Chapter is a dynamic group, and they have elected the first Chapter representative to the Governing Council. Indeed, the Government of Quebec sought to control new university programs by setting up a reviewing body comprising representatives of the various universities themselves. It is their aim to have at least one representative elected to the Windhoek City Council. It was necessary to hold further elections for the two areas where vacancies occurred, and one representative was eventually elected with only 3 votes. Unions are institutions in which representatives negotiate on behalf of the membership and where leaders represent this membership in a variety of fora, including political ones. The Sinn Fein assembly member said that Trimble was in breach of his legal obligations in his threat to refuse to nominate its representatives to the ministerial council and cross-border bodies. Few women are in positions of real responsibility in Japanese commerce and only around five per cent of women are elected representatives in Japan's Parliament. Yet each of the local development bodies includes elected representatives on their boards. While VUWSA exec members are elected representatives, that does not give them free license to decide what Victoria University as a whole supports. A consensus in favour of Gurirab is steadily growing among the southern African states which have not had a local representative elected to the position since the establishment of the organisation. The Assembly included representatives not only of three counties of Pennsylvania, but also of the three lower counties of Delaware. The permanent forum is a body of 16 representatives, half of them nominated by indigenous organisations and half by U.N. member states. Synonyms Member of Parliament, MP, Member councillor North American Member of Congress, congressman, congresswoman, senator 1.2 A delegate who attends a conference, negotiations, etc., so as to represent the interests of another person or group. a PLO representative attending a meeting in Damascus Example sentencesExamples The Labour Court is composed of union leaders and representatives of the employers association - a typical corporative construction. Though many of the interest group representatives in favor of repeal indicated that the time for Glass-Steagall reform was urgent, legislators did not possess that same feeling of urgency. It was not delegated to the representatives of the people, nor to so-called experts hired by them. The site was convincing enough to earn them an invite to a conference in Vienna as representatives of the WTO. They have the right to talk to employees and safety representatives, take photographs and samples, and to impound dangerous equipment. They are usually developed through a joint initiative between employers and employee representatives, with the help of retained professional advisers. If they showed interest, a further meeting with some employee representatives could be held to outline a proposal to submit to the next senior management meeting in a month's time. Nebraska farmers and agribusiness representatives interested in learning about emerging technologies and sharing on-farm experiences founded the association. For instance, in Germany there are much tighter institutional constraints and legislative requirements surrounding consultation with employees and their representatives than exist in the UK. About 160 Japanese company representatives attended the seminar. Labour markets are notoriously complex to analyse, with many labour market outcomes being the result of complex negotiations between employers and labour representatives within a bilateral monopoly framework. In step two, managers, key employees and a Your Training Manager account representative attend a one-day classroom program at the customer's location. One type typically included branch/unit Heads, or their delegated representatives. July 31 2001: Gateway tells its 900 staff to appoint employee representatives for consultations with the company over future redundancies in Dublin. It was revealed on Wednesday this week that Meatco's management and employee representatives have failed to persuade employees of the Windhoek abattoir to work overtime. NGO members as well as interested individuals and representatives attended the meeting from companies and relevant governmental agencies. And the new agency can get involved in rule-making as the representative of injured workers. If your workplace is unionised, it is generally negotiated with union representatives. ‘We are currently negotiating with employee representatives and we hope to shed 100 jobs over the next year,’ she said. About 100 workers' representatives attended the hearing, but Sony was only represented by two Indonesian assistant managers. Synonyms delegate, commissioner, ambassador, attaché, envoy, emissary, chargé, chargé d'affaires, commissary, deputy, aide Scottish depute Canadian &amp Australian agent general Roman Catholic Church nuncio archaic legate, factor 1.3 An agent of a firm who travels to potential clients to sell its products. a sales representative for Norwich Union Example sentencesExamples ‘Harwood's sales representatives already have relationships with the clients and know their needs and wants,’ he said. Nokia sales representatives don't talk about their products being the fastest or the lightest on the market, but they do talk about the great technology that lets customers communicate. Sales representatives were often unethical and willing to tell a client anything to sell a plant. If there is a question on the appropriate solvent for a product, check with a representative of the product manufacturer. Rocks joined Alfred twenty years ago as a sales representative who traveled to music stores throughout North America. Recently I have had a few e-mails from sales representatives in regional brokerage offices who say they are the only one in their large offices who understand this secular bear market. You and your sales representatives must be passionate about a piece of consignment sculpture, or the incentive to promote it will lag behind the other pieces you've poured money into. Many are extending their show specials, relying heavily on telephones and stepping up the one-on-one visits of their sales representatives. When IPA sales representatives first solicited their business, Doug Hassell and Kim Hudlow knew nothing about John Burgess or his company. For larger quantities, wholesale seed catalogues and seed company sales representatives may provide a wider selection of cultivars as well as wholesale pricing. The glossy pamphlets are crammed with cosmetics, but this ritual has become less about racking up sales of lipstick and face cream and more about a hunt for people, specifically future Avon sales representatives. Learn why a growing number of Canadian employers are introducing employment agreements for their employees-from senior executives to sales representatives. Wilbur-Ellis helps retail customers by making on-farm visits and providing agronomy support to the dealer's sales representatives, Ullom says. GlaxoSmithKline, with its vast network of sales representatives around the world, markets and sells for other drug companies. As a result, there is now a combined sales force of more than 2,000 representatives selling Altace to an expanded market. He told me to ‘be a detective,’ and to grill product representatives with tough, thoughtful questions. Take Five eMobile is our new solution allowing sales representatives to enter orders and find up-to-the-minute customer information while on the road. Gatekeepers can take a number of forms - a buying manager's personal assistant barring calls from sales representatives has the effect of screening out a number of possible choices. He had invited me along to hear a motivational speech that he would deliver later in the day to sales representatives of Reynolds and Reynolds Co., a maker of auto-industry software. We encouraged them to spend time with sales representatives. Synonyms commercial traveller, travelling salesman, salesman, saleswoman, agent, traveller informal rep, knight of the road North American informal drummer British archaic commercial 1.4 An employee of a travel company who lives in a resort and looks after the needs of its holidaymakers. make your own way to the Valley Inn, where you will be contacted by our tour representative Example sentencesExamples We expressed an interest in seeing it, and two days later the Tour East representative at the hotel informed us that one plant was in flower (at park grid reference G19). During the ski season, the company employs a further 20 part-time representatives in each of its resorts. They'll arrive in Langkawi, where they will be met by a representative from the travel agent and taken by private car to the five star deluxe Tangung Rhu Hotel, on the north of the island. This tour can be booked locally with the travel representative. A travel representative will meet them at the airport, bring them to their guesthouse and run through the route they've chosen for the next 13 days. The tour representative is a mistress of the revels, who incites the children to even greater excesses than they can imagine for themselves, which eventually results in the death of one of them on his 21st birthday. It's important to remember if you are travelling under a package deal to let your travel representative know as soon as possible about any problems you experience to allow them to try to sort them out. 2An example of a class or group. fossil representatives of lampreys and hagfishes Example sentencesExamples The level of dissatisfaction could be seen by the fact that even representatives of the young middle classes were often upset. Agee refuses to cast his sharecroppers as representatives of a class only, insisting instead on the complex interaction between type and particular individual, between commodity and artifact. Moreover, as Kempe travels throughout England and the rest of Europe, she often finds herself confronting less than exemplary representatives of her Lord. The representatives of management and the upper classes are mainly well-loved actors going - brilliantly - through familiar paces. Synonyms example, specimen exemplar, exemplification, type, archetype, illustration Derivatives representatively adverb rɛprɪˈzɛntətɪvliˌrɛprəˈzɛn(t)ədɪvli It is much less adept at counting employees in small businesses, simply because there are too many small enterprises to representatively sample them. Example sentencesExamples A left lower lobectomy was performed, and sectioning of the lung demonstrated a 1.3-cm firm, tan-pink mass which was representatively frozen. Each claims that it has standing to sue representatively, on behalf of its members, and for the injuries the organization has itself suffered. The revolutionaries of 1789 assumed that national sovereignty could only be exercised representatively, but within ten years Napoleon had begun to show how it could be appropriated to legitimize dictatorship and even monarchy. We had only six L. marinas, so we may not have sampled the polymorphism within that species representatively. representativeness noun rɛprɪˈzɛntətɪvnəsˌrɛprəˈzɛn(t)ədɪvnəs For example, new employees frequently are judged with respect to their representativeness of previously selected employees. Example sentencesExamples What is represented in litigation is only a snapshot of the broader legal landscape, and this representativeness needs to be accounted for. Writers who ignore or gloss over the audience cannot fully understand the appeal of popular figures, explore the music's contingent social effects, or contest the representativeness of existing accounts. What is obvious is that, despite this rainbow of representativeness, one notable absence was the working-class, white male. The issue of representativeness was of little significance because of my predominantly qualitative and narrative research approach. Definition of representative in US English: representative adjectiveˌreprəˈzen(t)ədivˌrɛprəˈzɛn(t)ədɪv 1Typical of a class, group, or body of opinion. these courses are representative of those taken by most Harvard undergraduates Example sentencesExamples Here is a representative synopsis of current opinion. Maximizing utility for increasing risk aversion shows the decreases in profit that the representative farm would be willing to accept for decreases in variability of net returns. You're dealing with very iconic, representative characters. A representative farm that utilizes typical production methods in the major cotton production region is constructed for Georgia. The entrant must perform a program that includes a significant representative selection from each of the following. An official of the independent Financial Supervisory Service said that as of this month, seven Japanese banks have branches in South Korea and six others have representative offices. But the poem is representative not exceptional. Consider the following situation: a representative consumer is faced with a rise in price of a product he has been buying, even though its price to begin with is relatively high. It seems likely that it was put here as a reference for the other two, since many of the scenes from this movie appear in the documentary also included in this set, and as a representative talkie he did for MGM. Secondly, why would these representative strategies indicate that Julie's mind is ‘a place of absence’? The distinction is now moot; knowledge rhetorically induced from a representative anecdote will ironically contain both of Ransom's two knowledges. Jane is both an effectively realized individual and a representative figure, a spokesperson for the African American experience from slavery times to the era of the civil rights movement. The suppliers of bond ETFs get around the liquidity problem by using representative sampling, which simply means tracking only a sufficient number of bonds to represent an index. For one thing, we will have to ignore a good deal of commentary presented by nameless characters, by representative characters, and by lay figures who appear for one important speech and are never seen again. Much of this story is familiar to specialists in the field, above all through the varied and often exhaustive archival research done in Germany over the years for each of the representative museums. She therefore rejects her position as someone who has ‘special significance’ in the narrative by refusing to play the role of representative victim assigned to her. The more representative 1.4 S model, which also has air conditioning, keyless entry, power windows and mirror adjustment, costs €18,695. ‘We really need a representative office in China,’ says Wang. In other words, her work is meant to compliment representative women as a means of facing down both negative female representations and the feminine false consciousness that participates in their transmission. This has involved the development of new representative mechanisms at the European level which maintain the regulatory gap through the enduring dominance of subsidiarity. Synonyms typical, prototypical, characteristic, illustrative, indicative 1.1 Containing typical examples of many or all types. a representative sample of young people in the South Example sentencesExamples A representative sample of Australian sound designs, from both indoor and outdoor sites help to communicate this national practice. A wide blade putty knife is excellent for breaking up the soil and insuring a representative sample. As a result, the dance companies whose data appears here are not a scientifically representative sample of the dance field as a whole. A representative sample poll of 4,000 people has a plus or minus one per cent chance of correctly calling the outcome of a national or constituency vote. Follow these instructions carefully to avoid contamination and to obtain a representative sample. It is hard to say how representative a sample this is. Collect a representative sample - no less than 5 lb in a paper bag (good idea to double bag) and directly transport or mail to a laboratory for testing. By getting e-mail addresses of a representative sample of the electorate, we can invite 50,000 to 100,000 people to participate at once. It eliminated 21 industry groups that were either too small to provide a representative sample or were of little relevance to most readers. A soil probe can help provide a representative sample. Nor can it be claimed that the participants constitute a statistically representative sample of the industry. Let's consider his latest among a representative sample of 2004's notable short story collections. We shall discuss some representative examples. No figures are given for the number of individuals interviewed, but instead we are informed that data was taken from a representative sample of 202 companies. The sheer number of illustrations is one of the book's main strengths and it is reasonably unlikely that any attempt to research a specific decanter will fail to locate a representative example. The final selection of student projects for the Archiprix is not a representative sample of what is going on below the surface. A show currently at New York's Janos Gat Gallery features Ross's latest works, along with representative examples of earlier series. Getting a representative sample of such a diverse and unconcentrated industry is difficult but essential. The final data is then weighted to these demographic parameters as a final check to ensure the sample is entirely representative. A representative sample of this spectacular art collection is exhibited on three floors in 43 galleries, some of which are graced by exquisite stucco ceilings. 2(of a legislative or deliberative assembly) consisting of people chosen to act and speak on behalf of a wider group. Example sentencesExamples Their representative body, the Irish Hardware and Building Materials Association, was not prepared to make an official comment. Leading trade union figures and the employers' representative body, Ibec, will battle it out over the next two months, with no guarantees that a new partnership deal will result from the talks. As the representative body of the British Jewish community, we have received a number of complaints about it from Jewish people in many parts of the world. The size of this representative governing body has changed: formerly made up of 121 members, the new council has approximately 100 voting members. In the UK, large companies have traditionally operated a system of workers' councils which also allow workers a say in the management of the business by allocating them places on such a representative body. Industry sources said representative bodies such as the American Chamber of Commerce could play an increasingly important role in future. For instance, trade unions, farmers' groups and other representative bodies are among the most powerful lobbyists. Nacba, which is the representative body of over 270 Irish gift stores, works closely with Irish manufacturers. Thus, the institutions of the European Union that should be representative bodies are indeed so. The Minister for Health, Micheal Martin, will pitch the proposals to a huge range of interest groups and representative bodies. A Loya Jirga, a sort of representative national assembly summoned to sanction a draft new constitution, seemed to have been unimpressed. The company told the Blessington Forum, a representative body of the town's businesses, that it was considering turning the dump into a legal landfill. Kubba advocates quick national elections for a second, broadly representative council to perform functions such as drafting a constitution. The Conference of Religious in Ireland, the representative body for the orders, recently called for more land to be made available for social housing. The Exhibition has been organised by the Angolan Industrial Association, a representative body for the Angolan business sector. Respond drafted an alternative plan and then entered into consultations with locals, representative organisations and councillors from the area. As the representative body for sporting shooting in the UK, It is launching the campaign of training and awareness to ensure that all airgun owners can practise their sport legally and safely. The advertising industry's representative body, the Institute of Advertising Practitioners in Ireland, welcomed the news. 2.1 (of a government or political system) based on elected representatives. free elections and representative democracy Example sentencesExamples It is precisely to temper the passions of the people that we resort to representative rather than direct democracy. There is still an opportunity for the Bush Administration to set Iraq onto a political path leading to representative democracy. It's really a strategic interest of the U.S. to see progress toward representative government and free government and free markets and economic development. Unfavorable governments in favor of big business therefore remain in power at the cost of a representative government. But perhaps the most important issue you start to confront is that of our representative democracy becoming ingrained, insular, and angry. None of this is an argument against representative government. The main prerequisite of representative democracy is based on an assumption that an average citizen enjoys free and equal access to any political debate. But it is realistic to hope it can be better, that it can be somewhat stable, that the government can be somewhat representative and we can live with that. Invariably, multiparty elections in Nigeria were meant to encourage the expression of the needs of different interest groups and thereby create a representative plurality that would equate to true democracy. If representative democracy worked properly there would be little to complain about if parliament chose to deliver (or, indeed, not to deliver) on social and economic rights. The reason we have representative government is because we elect these people to spend a little time thinking that the issues, sometimes we don't have the time to do that. Since by its very nature the power to issue money is unlimited, the new monetary regime flies in the face of the principle of representative government of limited and enumerated powers. It could, I suppose, be an agglomeration of similar moods, imaginatively totted up to form a persuasive total: mood as analogous to representative democracy. I know she wanted to make democracy more representative, but were there certain pieces of legislation that she worked on to achieve that end? Measured by Enlightenment standards, this is a perfectly representative democracy, answering individual wants in a time always tending towards ideal simultaneity. Dempsey claimed it was strangling national political debate and undermining effective representative parliamentary democracy. The draft constitution claims that the workings of the union ‘shall be founded on the principle of representative democracy’. Another northern area of the country declared itself the Republic of Puntland, and has made strides towards establishing a representative government, according to analysts. All told, representative democracy was in a state of ‘collapse’. The United States is a responsive representative democracy. Synonyms elected, elective, chosen, democratic, popular, nominated, appointed, commissioned 3Serving as a portrayal or symbol of something. the show should be more representative of how women really are Example sentencesExamples Thus the results will be more representative of the least advantaged children in New York. Did a majority of American film spectators live in large cities before the 1940s, or were small town and country viewers more representative of the overall audience? Voting rights should be rejiggered to make the IMF more representative of the world, and a more attractive forum for Asian nations. Making the work force more representative of the population has always been one of his top goals. It is almost as if by preventing modern development the US has created the conditions for the re-emergence of a state of affairs more representative of the 14th or 15th centuries. Mr Kathrens has selected forty three of what he considers ‘the most representative of the styles and architectural progressions’ of New York's great houses. So in a way, it was a very positive iconic picture, which in a way was very representative of that point in time. He was perhaps the most original of African American poets and, in the breadth and variety of his work, assuredly the most representative of African American writers. The actors throw themselves around the space, with little heed for the physical risks that they take, and their physical movement is the most representative of their emotions. Fuller's main interest, however, is not in religious thinkers who were most representative of their times but in those who rebelled against their times. The 125,000 Cubans who arrived from the port of Mariel in the spring of 1980 were more representative of the home country. However, the business elite is scarcely more representative of the population than it was a century ago. The song flies at an exceptional rate with Dolph screaming like a wild-man, which happens to be very representative of their live performance. They are much more representative of modern European attitudes. In the absence of a more refined critique, Gritten's polemic seems more representative of that special, English resistance to theory than of something more relevant and positive. But with the online gaming explosion of recent years, gamers have become a more sophisticated lot, and are now more representative of the general population. I tried to make music that suited the artist and reflected the signature of that artist, and was very representative of who they were. Toleration of different points of view and conclusions would be more representative of the open society. User's Guide has a few advantages over its predecessors: by benefit of its timing, it's much broader and perhaps more representative of their two decades of prodigious output. They are late pieces - simple, modest, and not very representative of the composer. Synonyms symbolic, emblematic, evocative 3.1 (of art) representational. the bust involves a high degree of representative abstraction Example sentencesExamples Smith translates complicated images of ‘accidental realities’ into film and photography as representative modes, which may provide an illusion of control over life. The great three-bay Crucifixion in S. Giacomo, filled with incident and genre detail but controlled by a compositional rigour looking both to Giotto and to Roman relief sculpture, is representative. Johannesburg seems to be bringing sufficient elements and materials from which an artist could draw from when producing a true representative work of art. In a few paintings, abstract and representative imagery meet. 4Philosophy Relating to mental representation. nounˌreprəˈzen(t)ədivˌrɛprəˈzɛn(t)ədɪv 1A person chosen or appointed to act or speak for another or others. the Duke of Gloucester would attend the coronation as the representative of his father, King George V Example sentencesExamples The first resolution for the AGM covers bylaw changes related to the public representatives on the Professional Conduct Enquiry Committee. However, we spoke with representatives of the other groups that have aligned with the PMA over the past few years, and all of them have said that they did not lose their identity. The old woman's bowed head, her desire to disappear from the coppers' sight speaks volumes for the relationship between herself and the white representatives of the Australian State. Company representatives travel to Italy twice a year to inspect procedures and ensure quality. It is a market fuelled by the huge Indian diaspora - even so, Christie's has just appointed a full-time representative in Mumbai. The four-man team which visited Zambia for two days held talks with Bank of Zambia governor Caleb Fundanga on Monday before they wound up their tour with a corporate representatives meeting. Services union Verdi said the plans had been forced through against the wishes of employee representatives. He refuses, but later does speak to Tribunal representatives, although still says he will not travel to give evidence. Friends said it planned to focus on distributing its products, which include pensions and savings, through independent financial advisers and appointed representatives. Grosso asked to speak to the GMAC representatives alone. But such things insert a physical and optical barrier between electors and their representatives, the public and its servants. Independently appointed public representatives are involved in all stages of the process. Most of the Socialist parties' leaders and their representatives in the Knesset came from those groups. All public representatives have to be sensible and intelligent and address this in a responsible way. It has appointed a representative in Italy and is opening offices in the US and in Australia with Travel Partners this month. A special Commission is appointed, representing clergy, bishops, laity and a representative of the Church overseas; the Prime Minister appoints the chairman. The People's representatives have carte blanche to do exactly as they please. Aer Lingus is not speaking to Impact as a representative of cabin crew. Diplomats believe the employers' representatives could play a pivotal role in the Governing Body's deliberations. However, most of them cannot speak English and cannot afford a legal representative. Synonyms spokesperson, spokesman, spokeswoman, agent deputy, substitute, stand-in, proxy, surrogate 1.1 A person chosen or elected to speak and act on behalf of others in a legislative assembly or deliberative body. Example sentencesExamples To move in the opposite direction would be to further erode the position of Irish elected representatives, increasing that of an unelected judiciary. It was necessary to hold further elections for the two areas where vacancies occurred, and one representative was eventually elected with only 3 votes. It is their aim to have at least one representative elected to the Windhoek City Council. The British system of government is one where an executive body, appointed from the ranks of elected representatives, initiates policy and the legislative process. Indeed, the Government of Quebec sought to control new university programs by setting up a reviewing body comprising representatives of the various universities themselves. The permanent forum is a body of 16 representatives, half of them nominated by indigenous organisations and half by U.N. member states. The document, obtained by this newspaper, was submitted earlier and was circulated on the day by council officials to the newly elected representatives. A municipality must be the affair of its resident, and they must elect their representatives as stipulated by the Local Authorities act, but not all on the same day. A consensus in favour of Gurirab is steadily growing among the southern African states which have not had a local representative elected to the position since the establishment of the organisation. Few women are in positions of real responsibility in Japanese commerce and only around five per cent of women are elected representatives in Japan's Parliament. We want to make legislators and elected representatives accountable. The California Chapter is a dynamic group, and they have elected the first Chapter representative to the Governing Council. The Assembly included representatives not only of three counties of Pennsylvania, but also of the three lower counties of Delaware. In 1996 the UDP elected two representatives to the Northern Ireland Forum. While VUWSA exec members are elected representatives, that does not give them free license to decide what Victoria University as a whole supports. Unions are institutions in which representatives negotiate on behalf of the membership and where leaders represent this membership in a variety of fora, including political ones. Yet each of the local development bodies includes elected representatives on their boards. As it is, it is difficult to understand why direct talks between all elected representatives and their respective parties are not already taking place as a matter of course. Most elected representatives on the unionist side have benefited from a system of selection. The Sinn Fein assembly member said that Trimble was in breach of his legal obligations in his threat to refuse to nominate its representatives to the ministerial council and cross-border bodies. Synonyms member of parliament, mp, member 1.2 A delegate who attends a conference, negotiations, legal hearing, etc., so as to represent the interests of another person or group. Example sentencesExamples It was revealed on Wednesday this week that Meatco's management and employee representatives have failed to persuade employees of the Windhoek abattoir to work overtime. They have the right to talk to employees and safety representatives, take photographs and samples, and to impound dangerous equipment. One type typically included branch/unit Heads, or their delegated representatives. Nebraska farmers and agribusiness representatives interested in learning about emerging technologies and sharing on-farm experiences founded the association. About 100 workers' representatives attended the hearing, but Sony was only represented by two Indonesian assistant managers. NGO members as well as interested individuals and representatives attended the meeting from companies and relevant governmental agencies. They are usually developed through a joint initiative between employers and employee representatives, with the help of retained professional advisers. July 31 2001: Gateway tells its 900 staff to appoint employee representatives for consultations with the company over future redundancies in Dublin. It was not delegated to the representatives of the people, nor to so-called experts hired by them. If they showed interest, a further meeting with some employee representatives could be held to outline a proposal to submit to the next senior management meeting in a month's time. The Labour Court is composed of union leaders and representatives of the employers association - a typical corporative construction. Though many of the interest group representatives in favor of repeal indicated that the time for Glass-Steagall reform was urgent, legislators did not possess that same feeling of urgency. In step two, managers, key employees and a Your Training Manager account representative attend a one-day classroom program at the customer's location. About 160 Japanese company representatives attended the seminar. And the new agency can get involved in rule-making as the representative of injured workers. For instance, in Germany there are much tighter institutional constraints and legislative requirements surrounding consultation with employees and their representatives than exist in the UK. The site was convincing enough to earn them an invite to a conference in Vienna as representatives of the WTO. If your workplace is unionised, it is generally negotiated with union representatives. ‘We are currently negotiating with employee representatives and we hope to shed 100 jobs over the next year,’ she said. Labour markets are notoriously complex to analyse, with many labour market outcomes being the result of complex negotiations between employers and labour representatives within a bilateral monopoly framework. Synonyms delegate, commissioner, ambassador, attaché, envoy, emissary, chargé, chargé d'affaires, commissary, deputy, aide 1.3 An agent of a firm who travels to potential clients to sell its products. Example sentencesExamples Nokia sales representatives don't talk about their products being the fastest or the lightest on the market, but they do talk about the great technology that lets customers communicate. Learn why a growing number of Canadian employers are introducing employment agreements for their employees-from senior executives to sales representatives. For larger quantities, wholesale seed catalogues and seed company sales representatives may provide a wider selection of cultivars as well as wholesale pricing. Many are extending their show specials, relying heavily on telephones and stepping up the one-on-one visits of their sales representatives. When IPA sales representatives first solicited their business, Doug Hassell and Kim Hudlow knew nothing about John Burgess or his company. We encouraged them to spend time with sales representatives. He had invited me along to hear a motivational speech that he would deliver later in the day to sales representatives of Reynolds and Reynolds Co., a maker of auto-industry software. Wilbur-Ellis helps retail customers by making on-farm visits and providing agronomy support to the dealer's sales representatives, Ullom says. As a result, there is now a combined sales force of more than 2,000 representatives selling Altace to an expanded market. Gatekeepers can take a number of forms - a buying manager's personal assistant barring calls from sales representatives has the effect of screening out a number of possible choices. Recently I have had a few e-mails from sales representatives in regional brokerage offices who say they are the only one in their large offices who understand this secular bear market. The glossy pamphlets are crammed with cosmetics, but this ritual has become less about racking up sales of lipstick and face cream and more about a hunt for people, specifically future Avon sales representatives. If there is a question on the appropriate solvent for a product, check with a representative of the product manufacturer. You and your sales representatives must be passionate about a piece of consignment sculpture, or the incentive to promote it will lag behind the other pieces you've poured money into. Take Five eMobile is our new solution allowing sales representatives to enter orders and find up-to-the-minute customer information while on the road. ‘Harwood's sales representatives already have relationships with the clients and know their needs and wants,’ he said. GlaxoSmithKline, with its vast network of sales representatives around the world, markets and sells for other drug companies. Sales representatives were often unethical and willing to tell a client anything to sell a plant. He told me to ‘be a detective,’ and to grill product representatives with tough, thoughtful questions. Rocks joined Alfred twenty years ago as a sales representative who traveled to music stores throughout North America. Synonyms commercial traveller, travelling salesman, salesman, saleswoman, agent, traveller 1.4 An employee of a travel company who looks after the needs of its vacationing clients. Example sentencesExamples We expressed an interest in seeing it, and two days later the Tour East representative at the hotel informed us that one plant was in flower (at park grid reference G19). They'll arrive in Langkawi, where they will be met by a representative from the travel agent and taken by private car to the five star deluxe Tangung Rhu Hotel, on the north of the island. It's important to remember if you are travelling under a package deal to let your travel representative know as soon as possible about any problems you experience to allow them to try to sort them out. A travel representative will meet them at the airport, bring them to their guesthouse and run through the route they've chosen for the next 13 days. This tour can be booked locally with the travel representative. During the ski season, the company employs a further 20 part-time representatives in each of its resorts. The tour representative is a mistress of the revels, who incites the children to even greater excesses than they can imagine for themselves, which eventually results in the death of one of them on his 21st birthday. 2An example of a class or group. fossil representatives of lampreys and hagfishes Example sentencesExamples The level of dissatisfaction could be seen by the fact that even representatives of the young middle classes were often upset. Moreover, as Kempe travels throughout England and the rest of Europe, she often finds herself confronting less than exemplary representatives of her Lord. The representatives of management and the upper classes are mainly well-loved actors going - brilliantly - through familiar paces. Agee refuses to cast his sharecroppers as representatives of a class only, insisting instead on the complex interaction between type and particular individual, between commodity and artifact. Synonyms example, specimen
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