REPRESENTATIVE Synonyms

• an advocate who represents someone else's policy or purpose

• a person who pleads for a cause or propounds an idea

• a lawyer who pleads cases in court

• push for something

• speak, plead, or argue in favor of

• an active and efficient cause; capable of producing a certain effect

• a representative who acts on behalf of other persons or organizations

• a substance that exerts some force or effect

• a businessman who buys or sells for another in exchange for a commission

• any agent or representative of a federal agency or bureau

• the semantic role of the animate entity that instigates or causes the happening denoted by the verb in the clause

• a diplomat of the highest rank; accredited as representative from one country to another

• an informal representative

• a person appointed or elected to represent others

• transfer power to someone

• give an assignment to (a person) to a post, or assign a task to (a person)

• someone authorized to exercise the powers of sheriff in emergencies

• an assistant with power to act when his superior is absent

• a member of the lower chamber of a legislative assembly (such as in France)

• a person appointed to represent or act on behalf of others

• a diplomat having less authority than an ambassador

• someone sent on a mission to represent the interests of someone else

• a brief stanza concluding certain forms of poetry

• a usually secretive or illicit sexual relationship

• a channel for communication between groups

• a person who carries a message

• a person authorized to act for another

• a power of attorney document given by shareholders of a corporation authorizing a specific vote on their behalf at a corporate meeting

• a member of the United States House of Representatives

• an item of information that is typical of a class or group

• a representative form or pattern

• something to be imitated

• punishment intended as a warning to others

• an occurrence of something

• a task performed or problem solved in order to develop skill or understanding

• artwork that helps make something clear or attractive

• showing by example

• an item of information that is typical of a class or group

• a visual representation (a picture or diagram) that is used to make some subject more pleasing or easier to understand

• an occurrence of something

• an item of information that is typical of a class or group

• clarify by giving an example of

• someone who mediates between speakers of different languages

• someone who uses art to represent something

• an advocate who represents someone else's policy or purpose

• (computer science) a program that translates and executes source language statements one line at a time

• informal abbreviation of `representative'

• a fabric with prominent rounded crosswise ribs

• the distinctive quality or pitch or condition of a person's speech

• the sound made by the vibration of vocal folds modified by the resonance of the vocal tract

• a sound suggestive of a vocal utterance

• expressing in coherent verbal form

• a means or agency by which something is expressed or communicated

• something suggestive of speech in being a medium of expression

• (metonymy) a singer

• an advocate who represents someone else's policy or purpose

• the ability to speak

• (linguistics) the grammatical relation (active or passive) of the grammatical subject of a verb to the action that the verb denotes

• the melody carried by a particular voice or instrument in polyphonic music

• A term used in phonetics and phonology to characterize speech sounds, with sounds described as either voiceless (unvoiced) or voiced.

• give voice to

• utter with vibrating vocal chords