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Representative Person Chosen Group Make Decisions Behalf Job

word representative
definition
noun
A representative is a person who has been chosen to act or make decisions on behalf of another person or a group of people.
...trade union representatives.
Employees from each department elect a representative.
A representative is a person whose job is to sell a company's products or services, especially by travelling round and visiting other companies.
She had a stressful job as a sales representative.
In the United States, a Representative is a member of the House of Representatives, the less powerful of the two parts of Congress.
adjective
A representative group consists of a small number of people who have been chosen to make decisions on behalf of a larger group.
The new head of state should be chosen by an 87 member representative council.
...the institutions of a representative government.
Someone who is typical of the group to which they belong can be described as representative .
He was in no way representative of dog-trainers in general.
...fairly representative groups of adults.
...a process designed to ensure the representativeness of the sample interviewed.
inflections representativesrepresentativeness
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