Usually means: Act or speak for someone.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. represent: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. represent: Merriam-Webster
  3. represent: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. represent: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. represent: Collins English Dictionary
  6. represent: Vocabulary.com
  7. Represent, represent: Wordnik
  8. represent: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. represent: Wiktionary
  10. represent: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. represent: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. represent: Dictionary.com
  13. represent: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. represent: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Re.present, Represent (Compton's Most Wanted album), Represent (Fat Joe album), Represent (song), Represent: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Represent: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. represent: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. represent: Rhymezone
  19. represent: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. represent: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. represent: FreeDictionary.org
  22. represent: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  23. represent: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. represent: TheFreeDictionary.com
  25. represent: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. represent: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. The Organon: A Conceptually Indexed Dictionary (by Genus and Differentia) (No longer online)

Business (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. represent: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. represent: Law.com Dictionary
  3. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  5. Represent (album), represent: Legal dictionary
  6. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. BABEL: Computer Oriented Abbreviations and Acronyms (No longer online)
  2. Represent (album), represent: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. represent: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. represent: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Totally Unofficial Rap (No longer online)

Sports (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Represent: Dan's Poker
  2. Texas Hold'em Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Represent: Poker Terms

(Note: See representable as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (transitive) To present again or anew; to present by means of something standing in the place of; to exhibit the counterpart or image of; to typify.
verb:  (transitive) To portray visually; to delineate
verb:  (transitive) To portray by mimicry or acting; to act the part or character of
verb:  (transitive) To stand or act in the place of; to perform the duties, exercise the rights, or otherwise act on behalf of
verb:  (politics, transitive) To act as a representative of (a country, state, district etc.)
verb:  (transitive) To portray to another using language; to show; to give one's own impressions and judgement of
verb:  (transitive) To give an account of; to describe.
verb:  (transitive) To serve as a sign or symbol of
verb:  (transitive) To bring a certain sensation of into the mind; to cause to be known, felt, or apprehended; to present.
verb:  (transitive) To form or image again in consciousness, as an object of cognition or apprehension (something presentative, which was originally apprehended by direct presentation).
verb:  (transitive) To constitute, to make up, to be an example of.
verb:  (sports, transitive) To participate as a team member
verb:  (poker, transitive) To play as if holding (a set of cards); to play as if having made (a hand).
verb:  (intransitive, African-American Vernacular) To constitute a good example or symbol of a group of people; to acquit oneself well.
verb:  (medicine) To present again, for instance for medical attention.
verb:  (by extension) To present again, possibly in an altered form.

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