how to pronounce representative
/ˌɹɛpɹəˈzɛntətɪv/
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representative is pronounced in five syllables
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An example use of representative in a speech by a native speaker of american english:
“… lost representative warren underwood who …”
meaning of representative
Representative means a person who is chosen to speak for a group of people.
representative frequency in english - B2 level of CEFR
the word representative occurs in english on average 15.6 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for B2 level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.
topics representative can be related to
it is hard to perfectly classify words into specific topics since each word can have many context of its use, but our machine-learning models believe that representative can be often used in the following areas:
1) business and work;
2) people, society, and culture;
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