I.
noun
ADJECTIVE
▪ chief , leading , main
▪ senior
▪ sole
▪
I was the sole ~ of the committee.
▪ appointed , designated , elected
▪ authorized , official
▪ field ( AmE ), international , local , national , regional , state
▪ British , US , etc.
▪ personal
▪ legal
▪ congressional , parliamentary , political
▪ council , government
▪ diplomatic
▪ UN
▪ special
▪
the UN special ~ for Cyprus
▪ permanent
▪
the Algerian permanent ~ at the UN
▪ military
▪ business , company , corporate , industry , management , marketing , trade
▪ customer-service , sales (also informal rep )
▪
She's a sales rep for sports equipment.
▪ financial , insurance , media , pharmaceutical
▪
his success as a full-time financial ~
▪
a panel of media ~s
▪ employee , labour/labor , union , worker
▪ class , student
▪ community , public
▪ NGO
▪ club , committee
▪ church
VERB + REPRESENTATIVE
▪ appoint , appoint sb (as) , choose (sb as) , elect , elect sb (as) , nominate ( esp. BrE ), nominate sb (as) ( esp. BrE ), select , select sb (as)
▪ send
▪
The association is sending ~s to the conference.
▪ consult , consult with , meet , meet with ( esp. AmE )
▪
Management are obliged to consult with union ~s about changes to conditions.
▪ discuss (sth) with
REPRESENTATIVE + VERB
▪ attend sth
▪
The negotiations were attended by ~s of several states.
▪ vote
REPRESENTATIVE + NOUN
▪ body
▪
The country has a new supreme ~ body.
PREPOSITION
▪ ~ for
▪
a ~ for international shipping companies
▪ ~ from , ~ of
▪
~s from citizens' groups
▪ ~ on
▪
a nursing ~ on the infection control committee
▪ ~ to
▪
~s to a conference
II.
adj.
VERBS
▪ be , seem
▪ consider sb/sth
ADVERB
▪ highly , very
▪ fully , truly
▪ not necessarily
▪ broadly , fairly , reasonably
▪
a broadly ~ sample
▪ widely
▪
Exhibits include a widely ~ collection of Greek vases.
▪ statistically
▪ nationally
▪
a nationally ~ picture of the employment situation
PREPOSITION
▪ of
▪
Is this group of people fully ~ of the population in general?
Representative is used with these nouns: ↑ assembly , ↑ collection , ↑ cross section , ↑ democracy , ↑ example , ↑ government , ↑ rugby , ↑ sample , ↑ selection , ↑ survey