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being or containing an example or examples (of another or others); consisting of elected members; a person elected or appointed to represent or act for others

characteristic, typical

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1) (a group of voters living in) a town or district that sends a representative to Parliament (constituency)

2) a person given a responsibility (especially a representative sent to a meeting) (delegate)

3) to take away the right of (a person) to send a representative to parliament or the right to vote for a parliamentary representative (disfranchise)

4) (of) a person having full power to act, make decisions etc as an official representative (of a government etc) (plenipotentiary)

5) a person taking an active part in government, especially as an elected representative (politician)

6) repertory; representative (rep)

7) a person speaking, or chosen, as the representative of a group (spokesperson)

8) being a good representative example (of a particular kind of person, thing) (typical)

9) not representative (unrepresentative)

REPRESENTATIVE as in Wiktionary
REPRESENTATIVE as in Wikipedia