- representative (of somebody/something) typical of a particular group of people; that is a typical example of something
- Is a questionnaire answered by 500 people truly representative of the population as a whole?
- The paper-thin models in magazines are not representative of most women.
- Some residents argued that the protesters were not representative of the community.
- The painting is not representative of his work of the period.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverbs- be
- seem
- consider somebody/something
- …
- highly
- very
- fully
- …
- of
- [usually before noun] containing or including examples of all the different types of people or things in a large group
- We interviewed a representative sample of teachers.
- Exhibits include a widely representative collection of Greek vases.
Extra Examples- a broadly representative sample
- a nationally representative picture of the employment situation
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverbs- be
- seem
- consider somebody/something
- …
- highly
- very
- fully
- …
- of
- (of a system of government, etc.) consisting of people who have been chosen to speak or vote for the rest of a group
- a representative democracy
- the advent of modern representative government
opposite unrepresentative
Word Originlate Middle English: from Old French representatif, -ive or medieval Latin repraesentativus, from the verb repraesentare ‘exhibit’, from re- (expressing intensive force) + praesentare ‘to present’.
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