represent
verb
us
/ˌrep.rɪˈzent/ uk
/ˌrep.rɪˈzent/represent verb (ACT FOR)
Ed Smythe represents California.
C2 [ T ]
We represented our grievances/demands to the boss.
- All the local churches were represented at the memorial service.
- All the nations of the world will be represented at the conference.
- A group of four teachers were delegated to represent the school at the union conference.
- They purport to represent the wishes of the majority of parents at the school.
- A friend of the victim was subpoenaed as a witness by lawyers representing the accused.
- alternate
- alternatively
- analog
- bargain
- bargain something away phrasal verb
- hold (down) the fort idiom
- if I were you idiom
- in exchange for something
- in the name of something idiom
- insert
- redeem
- sit in for someone phrasal verb
- someone's answer to someone/something idiom
- spell
- stand in phrasal verb
- stead
- step
- step into someone's shoes idiom
- substitute
- sweep
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represent verb (DESCRIBE)
- ¼ and 0.25 are different ways of representing the same fraction.
- The wild cards are represented here by asterisks.
- The decimal system represents numbers in terms of groups of ten.
- Each number on the scale represents twice the speed of the preceding number.
- Writers of realist novels try to represent life as it is.
represent verb (BE)
B2 [ L only + noun ]
to be the result of something, or to be something:
- The course represents excellent value for money.
- This huge, unfinished building represents the last hurrah of the former regime.
- The new price represents a saving of more than 40 percent.
- This new policy represents a change of direction for the government.
- Her father's blessing represented a bestowal of consent upon her marriage.
