1
general::
verb be a member of a group ADV. strongly, well Local businesses are well represented on the committee. | poorly | adequately | disproportionately Women are disproportionately represented among welfare recipients. act/speak officially for sb ADV. legally The suspect must appear and may be legally represented. VERB + REPRESENT choose sb to, elect sb to, select sb to He was chosen to represent Scotland in three consecutive World Cup Finals. show sth ADV. accurately Representing an image accurately requires a great many bytes of digital information. | fairly | falsely | diagrammatically, graphically, schematically, visually The data can be represented graphically in a line diagram. | symbolically VERB + REPRESENT be intended to It is not clear what these symbols were intended to represent. | purport to The film purported to represent the lives of ordinary people. PREP. as The film represents women as victims. | to He admitted falsely representing to police officers that the car had been stolen.
Oxford Collocations Dictionary