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rep

rep

499 7.7
A short word for a person who speaks and works for a company
  • noun
  • /rɛp/
  • Informal
translation icon : representante
  • I'm a sales rep for Nieman Marcus.
  • a sales rep
  • meet with a rep
  • a club rep

So what are your solar guys and reps do for like ongoing training?

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Examples

  • You're the rep for the pilots' union?

  • I'm a rep from Camp Lakeside.

  • And I was like, yeah, we have a new Rep at at District Lines.

  • - I'm a mobile sales rep for Happy Max.

  • I'm our school rep for our Student Environmental Conference next week.

  • Gentlemen, Mr. Brown has applied to be our sales rep on the Connecticut project.

  • Honesty is the best policy here; the rep will appreciate your directness.

    Academic text (2014)
  • Lucas Manning, age 34, was from Cleveland, Ohio, a pharmaceutical sales rep who was in New York on a business trip.

  • "The ConSpace tech rep won't come to us," said Seth, "we've got to go to him."

    Fiction book (1995)
  • I'm a sales rep for a tech company that develops software solutions.

Synonyms

624 3.5

A person who speaks or acts for other people in an official way

is an informal shortened form used mainly for company or group people
sales rep
vsrep
  • Informal
19 3.5

A person who sells a company's products or services to customers

is a shortened term used for many company roles not just sales
7 2.7

A person who contacts customers to sell a company's products and services

is an informal shortened term rather than this full job title

Compounds

sales rep
  • Informal
19 3.5

A person who sells a company's products or services to customers

mat rep
  • Jargon
8.2

One time you do an exercise on a mat

sales rep
  • Specialized
3.4

A computer program that talks to customers and helps them buy online

Surface Forms

rep singular
reps plural

Etymology

Rep is a short form of representative, which means someone who stands 'for' a company or group. So a rep is simply a person who represents others.