1. A person who represents others
   "The union representative negotiated better working conditions";
   - rep [informal]
    
2. An advocate who represents someone else's policy or purpose
   "The celebrity agreed to be the representative for the environmental campaign";
   - spokesperson, interpreter, voice
    
3. An item or case that is typical of a class or group
   "These specimens are representatives of the species";
   - example, illustration, instance, exemplum
    
4. A person employed to represent a business and to sell its merchandise (as to customers in a store or to customers who are visited)
   "Is a representative assisting you?";
   - salesperson, sales representative, sales rep [informal], rep [informal]
    
5. A member of the United States House of Representatives
   "The representative introduced a bill to address climate change";
   - congressperson

1. Standing for something else
   "the bald eagle is representative of the United States"
    
2. Serving to represent or typify
   "representative moviegoers"; "a representative modern play"
    
3. 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"

Derived forms: representatives

See also: allegoric, allegorical, democratic, emblematic, emblematical, symbolic, symbolical, typical

Type of: advocate, advocator, employe [US], employee, exponent, information, legislator, negotiant, negotiator, proponent, treater

Antonym: nonrepresentative

Encyclopedia: Representative, Misamis Oriental