| query | If you make r______________ to a government or other official group, you make formal complaints or requests to them.If you make representations to a government or other official group, you make formal complaints or requests to them. We have made representations to ministers but they just don't seem to be listening. |
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| word | representation |
| full-definition | noun If a group or person has representation in a parliament or on a committee, someone in the parliament or on the committee supports them and makes decisions on their behalf . Independent shareholders who own about half the stock now have no representation on the board. You can describe a picture, model, or statue of a person or thing as a representation of them. ...a lifelike representation of Christ. ...coloured papers and cardboard representations of Mount Fuji. If you make representations to a government or other official group, you make formal complaints or requests to them. We have made representations to ministers but they just don't seem to be listening. |
| inflections | representations |
| cefr-level | C1 |
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