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representationally

representationally

8.1
To include different people or groups in a government body
  • adverb
  • /ˌrɛprɪˈzɛnteɪʃənəli/
translation icon : representativamente
  • The committee ensured that all voices were representationally included in the final report.

Examples

  • Nature, for many, was understood politically and representationally and was also perceived in gender terms.

    Academic text (1996)

  • The policy changes aimed to representationally empower marginalized communities in decision-making processes.

  • In academe and in the world, the poor—materially and representationally marked as poor women—are constructed, read, (de)valued, and then bodily marked as Other.

    Academic text (2005)

  • In the new leadership initiative, the aim is to representationally address the needs of diverse groups.

Synonyms

representatively
vsrepresentationally
5.8

In a way that acts on behalf of a person or group as their official speaker

focuses on how people or groups are shown or given voice in institutions

How Representative

faithfully
54 2.6
representationally
8.1
symbolically
24 6.0
nominally
13 6.7

Surface Forms

representationally positive

Morphology

representationally = representational (transparent) = represent + ation + al + ly

The adverb is formed regularly by adding '-ly' to 'representational'; the political/institutional sense remains a straightforward extension of 'represent'.

Etymology

Representationally comes from represent, the same root in representative, and the core idea is 'to stand for' or 'to show'. So when used about politics or groups, representationally means 'in a way that stands for' or includes different people.