rep
noun/rep/
/rep/
(informal)- (also sales rep, representative, formal sales representative)[countable] an employee of a company who travels around a particular area selling the company’s goods to shops and other businesses
- rep for something She’s a sales rep for a recording company.
- a rep for the New York-based company
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- [countable] a person who speaks officially for a group of people, especially at work (short for ‘representative’)
- Subscriptions should be paid to your union rep.
- [uncountable] (informal) the type of work of a theatre company in which different plays are performed for short periods of time (short for ‘repertory’)
- in rep The opera is in rep at Glyndebourne from Sunday until August 31.
- a single short physical exercise that is performed multiple times without a break (short for ‘repetition’)
- I did 20 reps of each exercise.
- (especially North American English, informal) the opinion that people have about what somebody/something is like, based on what has happened in the past (short for ‘reputation’)
- Fast food gets a bad rep, but is this fair?
Word Originsenses 1 to 2 late 19th cent.: abbreviation.sense 3 1920s: abbreviation.
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