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representative - a person who represents others |
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negotiant,
negotiator,
treater someone who negotiates (confers with others in order to reach a settlement)
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agent an active and efficient cause; capable of producing a certain effect; "their research uncovered new disease agents"
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alderman a member of a municipal legislative body (as a city council); "aldermen usually represent city wards"
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assemblyman someone who is a member of a legislative assembly
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assemblywoman a woman assemblyman
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middleman,
contact close interaction; "they kept in daily contact"; "they claimed that they had been in contact with extraterrestrial beings"
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delegate a person appointed or elected to represent others
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emissary,
envoy someone sent on a mission to represent the interests of someone else
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chief of state,
head of state the chief public representative of a country who may also be the head of government
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personal representative a person who manages the affairs of another
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resident commissioner the representative of Puerto Rico in the United States House of Representatives
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union representative a representative for a labor union
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representative - standing for something else; "the bald eagle is representative of the United States" |
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nonrepresentative,
unsymbolic not standing for something else
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allegoric,
allegorical used in or characteristic of or containing allegory; "allegorical stories"; "an allegorical painting of Victory leading an army"
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emblematical,
emblematic,
symbolical,
symbolic serving as a visible symbol for something abstract; "a crown is emblematic of royalty"; "the spinning wheel was as symbolic of colonical Massachusetts as the codfish"
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representative - 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" |
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democratic representing or appealing to or adapted for the benefit of the people at large; "democratic art forms"; "a democratic or popular movement"; "popular thought"; "popular science"; "popular fiction"
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representative - serving to represent or typify; "representative moviegoers"; "a representative modern play" |
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typical conforming to a type; "the typical (or normal) American"; "typical teenage behavior"
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