representative

Meanings

• a person who represents others
• an advocate who represents someone else's policy or purpose;
• a member of the United States House of Representatives
• an item of information that is typical of a class or group;
• serving to represent or typify;
• "representative moviegoers"
• "a representative modern play"
• standing for something else;
• "the bald eagle is representative of the United States"
• being or characteristic of government by representation in which citizens exercise power through elected officers and representatives;
• "representative government as defined by Abraham Lincoln is government of the people, by the people, for the people"

Synonyms

• spokesperson
• interpreter
• voice
• congressman
• congresswoman
• example
• illustration
• instance

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