Representative may refer to:

Politics

  • Representative democracy, type of democracy in which elected officials represent a group of people
  • House of Representatives, legislative body in various countries or sub-national entities
  • Legislator, someone who is a member of a legislature

Mathematics

  • Representative (mathematics), an element of an equivalence class representing the class

Other uses

  • Sales representative
  • Manufacturers' representative
  • Customer service representative
  • Holiday rep
  • Representative sample, in statistics a sample or subset meant to represent a population
  • Representative director (Japan), most senior executive in charge of managing a corporation in Japan
  • The Representative (newspaper), unsuccessful 1826 London newspaper

See also

  • Representation (disambiguation)
  • Rep (disambiguation)
  • Presentative (disambiguation)
  • Special Representative, a diplomatic rank
  • The Representative (disambiguation)