representative
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
representative/reprɪˈzentətɪv/
▶adjective
- 1 typical of a class or group.
■ containing typical examples of many or all types.
- 2 (of a legislative or deliberative assembly) consisting of people chosen to act and speak on behalf of a wider group.
■ (of a government or political system) based on such representation of the people.
- 3 serving as a portrayal of something.
- 1 a person chosen or appointed to act or speak for another or others.
- 2 an agent of a firm who travels to potential clients to sell its products.
- 3 an example of a class or group.
– derivatives
representatively adverb,
representativeness noun.
representatively adverb,
representativeness noun.
'representative' also found in these Oxford entries:
additional member system
- Agent General
- ambassador
- attribute
- bailiff
- behalf
- best
- chargé d'affaires
- commercial traveller
- commissary
- commissioner
- constituency
- convocation
- cosmopolitan
- cross section
- delegate
- depute
- deputy
- drummer
- emissary
- envoy
- exequatur
- Gallup poll
- governor
- Governor General
- head of state
- icon
- levee
- Lord Commissioner
- macrocosm
- monotypic
- Nikkei index
- noble savage
- note
- ombudsman
- opinion poll
- pars pro toto
- party political broadcast
- primus inter pares
- principal
- proctor
- rector
- rep
- Rep.
- resident
- sample
- sampler
- sculpture
- statistics
