verb
1 be a member of a group
ADVERB
▪ strongly , well
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Local businesses are well ~ed on the committee.
▪ equally
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Women and men were ~ed equally on the teams.
▪ poorly
▪ adequately
▪ disproportionately
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Women are disproportionately ~ed among welfare recipients.
2 act/speak officially for sb
ADVERB
▪ legally ( BrE )
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The suspect must appear and may be legally ~ed.
▪ ably , adequately , truly
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We have been ably ~ed in our efforts by our attorney.
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How can we all be adequately ~ed by one political party?
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leaders who truly ~ the interests of working families
VERB + REPRESENT
▪ choose sb to , elect sb to , select sb to
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He was chosen to ~ Scotland in three consecutive World Cup Finals.
▪ claim to , pretend to
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organizations claiming to ~ farmers
3 show sth
ADVERB
▪ accurately , faithfully
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Representing an image accurately requires a great many bytes of digital information.
▪ fairly
▪ falsely
▪ diagrammatically ( esp. BrE ), graphically , schematically , visually
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The data can be ~ed graphically in a line diagram.
▪ symbolically
VERB + REPRESENT
▪ be intended to
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It is not clear what these symbols were intended to ~.
▪ purport to , seek to
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The book purported to ~ the lives of ordinary people.
PREPOSITION
▪ as
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The movie ~s women as victims.
Represent is used with these nouns as the subject: ↑ arrow , ↑ attorney , ↑ counsel , ↑ delegation , ↑ diagram , ↑ film , ↑ graph , ↑ image , ↑ line , ↑ map , ↑ metaphor , ↑ painting , ↑ percentage , ↑ symbol , ↑ union , ↑ work
Represent is used with these nouns as the object: ↑ achievement , ↑ antithesis , ↑ artist , ↑ beginning , ↑ breakthrough , ↑ challenge , ↑ client , ↑ climax , ↑ consensus , ↑ constituency , ↑ continuation , ↑ country , ↑ county , ↑ cross section , ↑ culmination , ↑ danger , ↑ departure , ↑ district , ↑ diversity , ↑ equivalent , ↑ escalation , ↑ essence , ↑ example , ↑ exception , ↑ extreme , ↑ failure , ↑ fall , ↑ group , ↑ hope , ↑ ideal , ↑ improvement , ↑ increase , ↑ instance , ↑ interest , ↑ landmark , ↑ milestone , ↑ move , ↑ obstacle , ↑ people , ↑ per cent , ↑ plaintiff , ↑ point of view , ↑ range , ↑ reality , ↑ reduction , ↑ return , ↑ reversal , ↑ saving , ↑ setback , ↑ shift , ↑ snub , ↑ spectrum , ↑ spirit , ↑ stage , ↑ state , ↑ swing , ↑ symbol , ↑ threat , ↑ triumph , ↑ turning point , ↑ type , ↑ view , ↑ viewpoint , ↑ watershed