- represent
- verb1 be a member of a groupADVERB▪ strongly, well▪
Local businesses are well represented on the committee.
▪ equally▪Women and men were represented equally on the teams.
▪ poorly▪ adequately▪ disproportionately▪Women are disproportionately represented among welfare recipients.
2 act/speak officially for sbADVERB▪ legally (BrE)▪The suspect must appear and may be legally represented.
▪ ably, adequately, truly▪We have been ably represented in our efforts by our attorney.
▪How can we all be adequately represented by one political party?
▪leaders who truly represent the interests of working families
VERB + REPRESENT▪ choose sb to, elect sb to, select sb to▪He was chosen to represent Scotland in three consecutive World Cup Finals.
▪ claim to, pretend to▪organizations claiming to represent farmers
3 show sthADVERB▪ accurately, faithfully▪Representing an image accurately requires a great many bytes of digital information.
▪ fairly▪ falsely▪ diagrammatically (esp. BrE), graphically, schematically, visually▪The data can be represented graphically in a line diagram.
▪ symbolicallyVERB + REPRESENT▪ be intended to▪It is not clear what these symbols were intended to represent.
▪ purport to, seek to▪The book purported to represent the lives of ordinary people.
PREPOSITION▪ as▪The movie represents women as victims.
Represent is used with these nouns as the subject: ↑arrow, ↑attorney, ↑counsel, ↑delegation, ↑diagram, ↑film, ↑graph, ↑image, ↑line, ↑map, ↑metaphor, ↑painting, ↑percentage, ↑symbol, ↑union, ↑workRepresent is used with these nouns as the object: ↑achievement, ↑antithesis, ↑artist, ↑beginning, ↑breakthrough, ↑challenge, ↑client, ↑climax, ↑consensus, ↑constituency, ↑continuation, ↑country, ↑county, ↑cross section, ↑culmination, ↑danger, ↑departure, ↑district, ↑diversity, ↑equivalent, ↑escalation, ↑essence, ↑example, ↑exception, ↑extreme, ↑failure, ↑fall, ↑group, ↑hope, ↑ideal, ↑improvement, ↑increase, ↑instance, ↑interest, ↑landmark, ↑milestone, ↑move, ↑obstacle, ↑people, ↑per cent, ↑plaintiff, ↑point of view, ↑range, ↑reality, ↑reduction, ↑return, ↑reversal, ↑saving, ↑setback, ↑shift, ↑snub, ↑spectrum, ↑spirit, ↑stage, ↑state, ↑swing, ↑symbol, ↑threat, ↑triumph, ↑turning point, ↑type, ↑view, ↑viewpoint, ↑watershed
Collocations dictionary. 2013.