Representative

Definition

representative / ' reprÇ'zentǝtÇv/ adj ၁။ ~ (of sb/sth) (က) သေဘာထားကို ထင္ဟပ္ေသာ။ Is a questionnaire answered by 500 people truly representative of national opinion? (ခ) အမ်ဳိးအစား ေပါင္းစံုကို ကိုယ္စားျပဳေသာ။ a representative sample/selection/survey ❍ a representative collection of European insects. (ဂ) အမ်ဳိးအစားတစ္ရပ္ကို ကိုယ္စားျပဳႏိုင္ေသာ။ The building is very representative of 1980s architecture. ၂။ ေရြးေကာက္တင္ေျမႇာက္ထားေသာ ကိုယ္စားလွယ္တို႔ျဖင့္ ဖြဲ႕စည္းအပ္ေသာ။ representative institutions/governments. n ~ (of sb/sth) ၁။ ကိုယ္စားျပဳျခင္း။ representatives of the younger generation. ၂။ (also infml rep ) ( commerce ) ကိုယ္စားလွယ္။ act as sole representatives of the company in Turkey ❍ their representative for the Middle East. ၃။ (က) ကိုယ္စားလွယ္။ the Queen's representative at the ceremony. (ခ) ကိုယ္စားလွယ္။ our representative (ie MP) in the House of Commons ❍ send a representative to the negotiations ❍ a representative of the Fire Brigade Union. See also HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

Examples

1. An elected/political representative
2. [representative of/from] : Delegates will meet with representatives from industry and the government.