representative
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 →
2) A person who works for a company and sells or explains its things: a sales representative. tree →
3) (US) A member of the House of Representatives. tree →
4) (adjective) Typical; showing what a group is like: a representative sample. tree →
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 →
- A representative from the bank visited the school. tree →
- The survey used a representative sample of pupils. tree →
- Is our sample representative of the whole school? tree →
- She is a representative in Congress. tree →
- Call a customer service representative. tree →
- Remarks.--No collection of Celtic Folk-Tales would be representative that did not contain some specimen of the gruesome. tree →
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.
- Parliament is where elected representatives, called MPs in the UK, debate and vote on new laws.
- A representative speaks for a group and also brings back what happened, including the other side's reasons.
- The people they choose are called representatives.
- A parliament is a group of elected representatives who debate and make laws; in the United States it is called Congress.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «representative» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.