📒 to be a member of a group of people and act or speak for them at an event, a meeting, etc.
- The competition attracted over 500 contestants representing eight different countries.
- Local businesses are well represented on the committee (= there are a lot of people from them on the committee).
- The opening speech was by Bob Alan representing Amnesty International.
📒 to act or speak officially for somebody and defend their interests
- The union represents over 200 000 teachers.
- The association was formed to represent the interests of women artists.
- Ms Dale is representing the defendant (= is his/her lawyer) in the case.
📒 to take part in a sports event for a particular country, city, etc.
- He's been chosen to represent Scotland in next year's World Cup Finals.
📒 to be a symbol of something
- Each colour on the chart represents a different department.
- Wind direction is represented by arrows.
- The artist uses doves to represent peace.
📒 to be something
- This contract represents 20% of the company's annual revenue.
- The final figure represents a 12% increase on the number of new jobs created the previous year.
- They're investing in low-carbon technologies that represent value for money.
📒 to be present in something to a particular degree
- Women and men were represented equally on the teams.
- Women are disproportionately represented among welfare recipients.
📒 to be an example or expression of something
- The project represents all that is good in the community.
- Those comments do not represent the views of us all.
- The book purported to represent the lives of ordinary people.
📒 to show somebody/something, especially in a picture
- represent somebody/something The carvings represent a hunting scene.
- The map represents Italy in the 12th century.
- The results are represented in fig. 3 below.
📒 to present or describe somebody/something in a particular way, especially when this may not be fair
- represent somebody/something as something The king is represented as a villain in the play.
- The risks were represented as negligible.
- The film represents us as helpless victims.
📒 to make a formal statement to somebody in authority to make your opinions known or to protest
- represent something to somebody They represented their concerns to the authorities.
- represent (to somebody) that… He admitted falsely representing to police officers that the car had been stolen.