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Meaning: [representative in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/representative/). - En fait, ce que je trouve toujours important ici, c'est que nous sommes en quelque sorte «the House of **Representatives**» et le Conseil des Ministres, le Sénat, et qu'entre ces deux institutions, le rôle que remplit la Commission est d'une importance inimaginable. I always think of ourselves as a kind of House of **Representatives** and the Council as the Senate, with the Commission playing the absolutely vital role of intermediary. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1683079) - Signature and name of declarant/**representative**: Signature and name of declarant/**representative**: a b ([DGT-TM v2021](https://joint-research-centre.ec.europa.eu/language-technology-resources/dgt-translation-memory_en) · Source: European Commission, DGT-TM (Steinberger et al. 2012), re-used under Commission Decision 2011/833/EU; the Commission keeps ownership of the data · checked, professional translation · segment 3755521) - **Representatives**: Mr. Yutaka YAMAMOTO **Representatives**: Mr. Yutaka YAMAMOTO ([United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0](https://conferences.unite.un.org/UNCorpus) · Source: United Nations, United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0 (Ziemski, Junczys-Dowmunt and Pouliquen 2016) · checked, professional translation · segment 11704031) - Avec l’accord de son auteur et pour que les choses soient claires, je demanderais d’ajouter les deux mots «in order». Ce qui donnerait «in order to lay down the conditions for a **representative** democracy». Mr President, there is also a written version of this amendment, and with the consent of its author, I would ask that, for the sake of clarification, only the two words ‘in order’ be added, giving ‘in order to lay down the conditions for a **representative** democracy’. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 772812) - Office of the United States Trade **Representative** (Bureau du Représentant américain au commerce) Office of the United States Trade **Representative** ([DGT-TM v2021](https://joint-research-centre.ec.europa.eu/language-technology-resources/dgt-translation-memory_en) · Source: European Commission, DGT-TM (Steinberger et al. 2012), re-used under Commission Decision 2011/833/EU; the Commission keeps ownership of the data · checked, professional translation · segment 2549109) ## ambassador Used about 5 484 times in the texts (UN documents ≈ 5 484). Meaning: [ambassador in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/ambassador/). - Mr. Jan Knutsson Ambassador, Permanent **Representative**, Geneva, Mr. Jan Knutsson **Ambassador**, Permanent Representative, Geneva, ([United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0](https://conferences.unite.un.org/UNCorpus) · Source: United Nations, United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0 (Ziemski, Junczys-Dowmunt and Pouliquen 2016) · checked, professional translation · segment 22247476) - H.E. Mr. Anthony HILL, Ambassador, Permanent **Representative**, Geneva H.E. Mr. Anthony HILL, **Ambassador**, Permanent Representative, Geneva ([United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0](https://conferences.unite.un.org/UNCorpus) · Source: United Nations, United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0 (Ziemski, Junczys-Dowmunt and Pouliquen 2016) · checked, professional translation · segment 3223407) - H.E. Mr. Vanu Gopala MENON, Ambassador, Permanent **Representative**, Geneva H.E. Mr. Vanu Gopala MENON, **Ambassador**, Permanent Representative, Geneva ([United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0](https://conferences.unite.un.org/UNCorpus) · Source: United Nations, United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0 (Ziemski, Junczys-Dowmunt and Pouliquen 2016) · checked, professional translation · segment 11162022) - H.E. Mr. Gopala Menon VANU, Ambassador, Permanent **Representative**, Geneva H.E. Mr. Gopala Menon VANU, **Ambassador**, Permanent Representative, Geneva ([United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0](https://conferences.unite.un.org/UNCorpus) · Source: United Nations, United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0 (Ziemski, Junczys-Dowmunt and Pouliquen 2016) · checked, professional translation · segment 9771928) - Mr. Nasser Salman AL ABOODI, Ambassador, Permanent **Representative**, Geneva Mr. Nasser Salman AL ABOODI, **Ambassador**, Permanent Representative, Geneva ([United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0](https://conferences.unite.un.org/UNCorpus) · Source: United Nations, United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0 (Ziemski, Junczys-Dowmunt and Pouliquen 2016) · checked, professional translation · segment 11138911) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - les observations du Board of Airline **Representatives** ont été reçues le 17 septembre 2012, ainsi que les observations d'Air France, de Association of European Airlines et de Brussels Airport Company, comments were received from Brussels Airlines on 18 September 2012, ([DGT-TM v2021](https://joint-research-centre.ec.europa.eu/language-technology-resources/dgt-translation-memory_en) · Source: European Commission, DGT-TM (Steinberger et al. 2012), re-used under Commission Decision 2011/833/EU; the Commission keeps ownership of the data · checked, professional translation · segment 3875856) ## Grammar Notes on grammar and translation on Mova: [French grammar](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/fr/) · [English grammar](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/en/) · [translating between English and French](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/translation/pairs/en-fr/) · [translating from French](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/translation/from-fr/) · [translating into English](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/translation/into-en/). ## About these examples Translations are found by how often the two words stand in the same sentence pairs, and the highlighted words are matched automatically: both are approximate. 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