0 someone who speaks or does something officially for another person or group of people:
1 typical of, or the same as, others in a larger group of people or things:
2 A representative system of government is one in which people vote for politicians to represent them.
3 a member of the US House of Representatives; a congressman or congresswoman
4 a person who represents another person or a group:
5 serving to describe, esp. a larger group of the same type:
6 someone whose job is to sell a company's products or services, especially by visiting or phoning customers:
8 typical of a large group of people or things:
representative of sth These remarks are not representative of the views of management.
9 a small group that contains the same mixture of people or things that is found in a bigger group, so that it is able to provide useful information about the bigger group :
The survey was sent to a representative sample of US households.
A representative from the tour company will meet you at the check-in.
He visited China in his official capacity as America's trade representative.
In order to increase the number of female representatives, the selection committee decided to discriminate in favour of women for three years.
Their governing body is commonly open to representatives of civil society, people who risk their reputation and assume legal responsibilities for the privilege of leadership.
Conventions are at least in theory express agreements, voluntarily entered into between the heads of (or other representatives of) states.
Now, clearly, liberal democratic states can and do use coercive means in order to implement policies that have been agreed amongst democratically elected representatives.
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