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Represent Person Group Official Event Represented Behalf General

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If you r________ a person or group at an official event, you go there on their behalf.If you represent a person or group at an official event, you go there on their behalf.
The general secretary may represent the president at official ceremonies.
word represent
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If someone such as a lawyer or a politician represents a person or group of people, they act on behalf of that person or group.
...the politicians we elect to represent us.
The offer has yet to be accepted by the lawyers representing the victims.
If you represent a person or group at an official event, you go there on their behalf.
The general secretary may represent the president at official ceremonies.
If you represent your country or town in a competition or sports event, you take part in it on behalf of the country or town where you live .
My only aim is to represent Britain at the Commonwealth Games.
If a group of people or things is well represented in a particular activity or in a particular place, a lot of them can be found there.
Sadly, women leaders are not well represented in our churches.
In New Mexico all kinds of cuisines are represented.
If you say that something represents a change, achievement, or victory, you mean that it is a change, achievement, or victory.
The pieces on view represent superb examples from various periods.
These developments represented a major change in the established order.
If a sign or symbol represents something, it is accepted as meaning that thing.
A black dot in the middle of the circle is supposed to represent the source of the radiation.
To represent an idea or quality means to be a symbol or an expression of that idea or quality.
We believe you represent everything British racing needs.
If you represent a person or thing as a particular thing, you describe them as being that thing.
The popular press tends to represent him as an environmental guru.
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