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representative
noun
1 representative
A person who represents others.
Roget 758:
consignee,
trustee,
nominee,
committee.
agent,
delegate;
commissary,
commissioner;
emissary,
envoy,
commissionaire [Fr.];
messenger
etc.
534.
diplomatist,
diplomat,
diplomate,
corps diplomatique [Fr.],
embassy;
ambassador,
embassador†;
representative,
resident,
consul,
legate,
nuncio,
internuncio†,
charge d'affaires [Fr.],
attache.
vicegerent
etc.
(deputy)
759;
plenipotentiary.
functionary,
placeman†,
curator;
treasurer
etc.
801;
factor,
bailiff,
clerk,
secretary,
attorney,
advocate,
solicitor,
proctor,
broker,
underwriter,
commission agent,
auctioneer,
one's man of business;
factotum
etc.
(director)
694;
caretaker;
dalal†,
dubash†,
garnishee,
gomashta†.
negotiator,
go-between;
middleman;
under agent,
employe;
servant
etc.
746;
referee,
arbitrator
etc.
(judge)
967.
traveler,
bagman,
commis-voyageur [Fr.],
touter†,
commercial traveler,
drummer [U.S.],
traveling man.
newspaper correspondent,
own correspondent,
special correspondent.
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Roget 759:
deputy,
substitute,
vice,
proxy,
locum tenens,
badli†,
delegate,
representative,
next friend,
surrogate,
secondary.
regent,
viceregent†,
vizier,
minister,
vicar;
premier
etc.
(director)
694;
chancellor,
prefect,
provost,
warden,
lieutenant,
archon,
consul,
proconsul;
viceroy
etc.
(governor)
745;
commissioner
etc.
758;
Tsung-li Yamen,
Wai Wu Pu;
plenipotentiary,
alter ego.
team,
eight,
eleven;
champion.
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Roget 690:
doer,
actor,
agent,
performer,
perpetrator,
operator;
executor,
executrix;
practitioner,
worker,
stager.
bee,
ant,
working bee,
termite,
white ant;
laboring oar,
servant of all work,
factotum.
workman,
artisan;
craftsman,
handicraftsman;
mechanic,
operative;
working man;
laboring man;
demiurgus,
hewers of wood and drawers of water,
laborer,
navvy†;
hand,
man,
day laborer,
journeyman,
charwoman,
hack;
mere tool
etc.
633;
beast of burden,
drudge,
fag;
lumper†,
roustabout.
maker,
artificer,
artist,
wright,
manufacturer,
architect,
builder,
mason,
bricklayer,
smith,
forger,
Vulcan;
carpenter;
ganger,
platelayer;
blacksmith,
locksmith,
sailmaker,
wheelwright.
machinist,
mechanician,
engineer.
sempstress†,
semstress†,
seamstress;
needlewoman†,
workwoman;
tailor,
cordwainer†.
minister
etc.
(instrument)
631;
servant
etc.
746;
representative
etc.
(commissioner)
758,
(deputy)
759.
coworker,
party to,
participator in,
particeps criminis [Lat.],
dramatis personae [Lat.];
personnel.
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Roget 147:
substitution,
commutation;
supplanting
etc.
v.;
metaphor,
metonymy
etc.
(figure of speech)
521.
[Thing substituted]
substitute,
ersatz,
makeshift,
temporary expedient,
replacement,
succedaneum;
shift,
pis aller [Fr.],
stopgap,
jury rigging,
jury mast,
locum tenens,
warming pan,
dummy,
scapegoat;
double;
changeling;
quid pro quo,
alternative.
representative
etc.
(deputy)
759;
palimpsest.
price,
purchase money,
consideration,
equivalent.
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Dutch: representant, vertegenwoordiger
Polish: przedstawiciel, reprezentant
2 representative
An advocate who represents someone else's policy or purpose.
synonyms: interpreter, spokesperson, voice.
Dutch: interpreet, voorlichter, woordvoerder
3 representative
A member of the United States House of Representatives.
synonyms: congressman, congresswoman.
Dutch: Congreslid, congreslid
4 representative
adjective
1 representative
Serving to represent or typify.
Roget 554:
represent,
representing
etc.
v.,
representative;
illustrative [Slang];
represented
etc.
v.;
imitative,
figurative;
iconic.
like
etc.
17;
graphic
etc.
(descriptive)
594;
cinquecento quattrocento [Fr.],
trecento†.
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Roget 550:
indicating
etc.
v.,
indicative,
indicatory;
denotative,
connotative;
diacritical,
representative,
typical,
symbolic,
pantomimic,
pathognomonic†,
symptomatic,
characteristic,
demonstrative,
diagnostic,
exponential,
emblematic,
armorial;
individual
etc.
(special)
79.
known by,
recognizable by;
indicated
etc.
v.;
pointed,
marked.
[Capable of being denoted]
denotable†;
indelible.
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Polish: reprezentatywny, reprezentacyjny
2 representative
Standing for something else.
3 representative
Being or characteristic of government by representation in which citizens exercise power through elected officers and representatives.
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