represent

represent
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W1S2 [ˌreprıˈzent] v
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1¦(speak for somebody)¦
2¦(in court)¦
3¦(be something)¦
4¦(government)¦
5¦(sign)¦
6¦(symbol)¦
7¦(sports)¦
8 be represented
9¦(describe)¦
10¦(art)¦
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[Date: 1300-1400; : Old French; Origin: representer, from Latin repraesentare, from praesentare; PRESENT2]
1.) ¦(SPEAK FOR SOMEBODY)¦ [T]
to officially speak or take action for another person or group of people
▪ Mr Kobayashi was chosen to represent the company at the conference.
2.) ¦(IN COURT)¦ [T]
to speak officially for someone in a court of law
represent yourself
▪ She decided to represent herself (=speak for herself without a lawyer) during the trial.
3.) ¦(BE SOMETHING)¦ [linking verb]
to form or be something
→↑amount to
▪ European orders represented 30 percent of our sales last year.
represent a change/an advance/an increase etc
▪ This treatment represents a significant advance in the field of cancer research.
4.) ¦(GOVERNMENT)¦ [T]
to have been elected to a parliament, council etc by the people in a particular area
▪ He represents the Congressional District of Illinois.
5.) ¦(SIGN)¦ [T]
to be a sign or mark that means something
= ↑stand for
▪ Brown areas represent deserts on the map.
6.) ¦(SYMBOL)¦ [T]
to be a symbol of something
▪ He hated the school and everything it represented.
7.) ¦(SPORTS)¦ [T]
if you represent your country, school, town etc in a sport, you take part in a sports event for that country etc
▪ Her greatest ambition was to represent her country at the Olympics.
8.) be represented
if a group, organization, area etc is represented at an event, people from it are at the event
▪ All the local clubs were represented in the parade.
9.) ¦(DESCRIBE)¦ [T]
to describe someone or something in a particular way, especially in a way that is not true
= ↑portray
→↑depict represent sb/sth as sth
▪ The article represents the millionaire as a simple family man.
▪ He had represented himself as an employee in order to gain access to the files.
10.)¦(ART)¦ [T]
if a painting, ↑statue, piece of music etc represents something or someone, it shows them
▪ Paintings representing religious themes were common in medieval times.

Dictionary of contemporary English. 2013.

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