represent

represent
verb
1 be a member of a group
ADVERB
▪ 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 sb
ADVERB
▪ 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 sth
ADVERB
▪ 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.

▪ symbolically
VERB + 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, ↑work
Represent 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

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  • represent — rep·re·sent vt 1: to substitute in some capacity for: act the part of, in place of, or for (as another person) usu. by legal right: as a: to serve esp. in a legislative body by delegated authority usu. resulting from an election b: to provide… …   Law dictionary

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  • represent — rep‧re‧sent [ˌreprɪˈzent] verb [transitive] 1. to speak or go somewhere officially in order to state the views, opinions etc of another person or group of people: • Workers hired during the strike are opposed to being represented by the union. •… …   Financial and business terms

  • Represent — Rep re*sent (r?p r? z?nt ), v. t. [F. repr[ e]senter, L. repraesentare, repraesentatum; pref. re re + preesentare to place before, present. See {Present}, v. t.] 1. To present again or anew; to present by means of something standing in the place… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • represent — represent, depict, portray, delineate, picture, limn can mean to present an image or lifelike imitation of (as in art). Represent implies a placing before the mind as if real or as if living through the medium of one of the arts (as painting,… …   New Dictionary of Synonyms

  • represent — [v1] present image of; symbolize act as, act as broker, act for, act in place of, appear as, assume the role of, be, be agent for, be attorney for, be proxy for, betoken, body, buy for, copy, correspond to, do business for, emblematize, embody,… …   New thesaurus

  • represent — [rep΄ri zent′] vt. [ME representen < OFr representer < L repraesentare < re , again + praesentare: see RE & PRESENT, vt.] 1. to present or picture to the mind 2. a) to present a likeness or image of; portray; depict b) …   English World dictionary

  • represent as — index assume (simulate) Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …   Law dictionary

  • represent — late 14c., to bring to mind by description, also to symbolize, to be the embodiment of; from O.Fr. representer (12c.), from L. repraesentare, from re , intensive prefix, + praesentare to present, lit. to place before (see PRESENT (Cf. present)… …   Etymology dictionary

  • represent — ► VERB 1) be entitled or appointed to act and speak for. 2) be an elected member of a legislature for. 3) constitute; amount to. 4) be a specimen or example of; typify. 5) (be represented) be present to a particular degree. 6) portray in a… …   English terms dictionary

  • represent — [[t]re̱prɪze̱nt[/t]] ♦♦ represents, representing, represented 1) VERB 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. [V n] ...the politicians we elect to represent… …   English dictionary

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