| representative | | |
| n. (person) | 1. representative | a person who represents others. |
| ~ agent | a representative who acts on behalf of other persons or organizations. |
| ~ alderman | a member of a municipal legislative body (as a city council).; "aldermen usually represent city wards" |
| ~ assemblyman | someone who is a member of a legislative assembly. |
| ~ assemblywoman | a woman assemblyman. |
| ~ middleman, contact | a person who is in a position to give you special assistance.; "he used his business contacts to get an introduction to the governor" |
| ~ delegate | a person appointed or elected to represent others. |
| ~ emissary, envoy | someone sent on a mission to represent the interests of someone else. |
| ~ chief of state, head of state | the chief public representative of a country who may also be the head of government. |
| ~ negotiant, negotiator, treater | someone who negotiates (confers with others in order to reach a settlement). |
| ~ personal representative | a person who manages the affairs of another. |
| ~ resident commissioner | the representative of Puerto Rico in the United States House of Representatives. |
| ~ union representative | a representative for a labor union. |
| n. (person) | 2. interpreter, representative, spokesperson, voice | an advocate who represents someone else's policy or purpose.; "the meeting was attended by spokespersons for all the major organs of government" |
| ~ advocate, advocator, exponent, proponent | a person who pleads for a cause or propounds an idea. |
| ~ ambassador | an informal representative.; "an ambassador of good will" |
| ~ flack, flack catcher, flak, flak catcher | a slick spokesperson who can turn any criticism to the advantage of their employer. |
| ~ mouthpiece, mouth | a spokesperson (as a lawyer). |
| ~ spokesman | a male spokesperson. |
| ~ spokeswoman | a female spokesperson. |
| ~ bagman, commercial traveler, commercial traveller, roadman, traveling salesman, travelling salesman | a salesman who travels to call on customers. |
| n. (person) | 3. congressman, congresswoman, representative | a member of the United States House of Representatives. |
| ~ rep | informal abbreviation of `representative'. |
| ~ legislator | someone who makes or enacts laws. |
| n. (cognition) | 4. example, illustration, instance, representative | an item of information that is typical of a class or group.; "this patient provides a typical example of the syndrome"; "there is an example on page 10" |
| ~ information | knowledge acquired through study or experience or instruction. |
| ~ apology, excuse | a poor example.; "it was an apology for a meal"; "a poor excuse for an automobile" |
| ~ exception | an instance that does not conform to a rule or generalization.; "all her children were brilliant; the only exception was her last child"; "an exception tests the rule" |
| ~ case in point, precedent | an example that is used to justify similar occurrences at a later time. |
| ~ quintessence | the most typical example or representative of a type. |
| ~ sample | a small part of something intended as representative of the whole. |
| ~ specimen | an example regarded as typical of its class. |
| adj. | 5. representative | serving to represent or typify.; "representative moviegoers"; "a representative modern play" |
| ~ typical | exhibiting the qualities or characteristics that identify a group or kind or category.; "a typical American girl"; "a typical suburban community"; "the typical car owner drives 10,000 miles a year"; "a painting typical of the Impressionist school"; "a typical romantic poem"; "a typical case of arteritis" |
| adj. | 6. representative | standing for something else.; "the bald eagle is representative of the United States" |
| ~ allegoric, allegorical | used in or characteristic of or containing allegory.; "allegorical stories"; "an allegorical painting of Victory leading an army" |
| ~ emblematic, emblematical, symbolic, symbolical | serving as a visible symbol for something abstract.; "a crown is emblematic of royalty"; "the spinning wheel was as symbolic of colonical Massachusetts as the codfish" |
| adj. | 7. representative | 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" |
| ~ democratic | characterized by or advocating or based upon the principles of democracy or social equality.; "democratic government"; "a democratic country"; "a democratic scorn for bloated dukes and lords" |
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