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# representative

«representative» in Mova's school dictionary: **A person chosen to speak or act for others: our class…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

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

### meaning for a pupil

1) A person chosen to speak or act for others: our class representative. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/representative/#m1)

2) A person who works for a company and sells or explains its things: a sales representative. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/representative/#m2)

3) (US) A member of the House of Representatives. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/representative/#m3)

4) (adjective) Typical; showing what a group is like: a representative sample. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/representative/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

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

### examples

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

### note

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

### In the corpora

- [An election is when adults vote to choose their leaders and representatives; candidates send leaflets to explain their promises.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/31-votes-parties-and-the-people-in-charge/8/)
- [Parliament is where elected representatives, called MPs in the UK, debate and vote on new laws.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/31-votes-parties-and-the-people-in-charge/15/)
- [A representative speaks for a group and also brings back what happened, including the other side's reasons.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/37-school-councils-and-class-reps/11/)
- [The people they choose are called representatives.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/96-laws-voting-government/2/)
- [A parliament is a group of elected representatives who debate and make laws; in the United States it is called Congress.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/96-laws-voting-government/15/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «representative» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/representative/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.