Ambassador vs. Representative — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Ambassador and Representative
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Ambassador
An ambassador is an official envoy, especially a high-ranking diplomat who represents a state and is usually accredited to another sovereign state or to an international organization as the resident representative of their own government or sovereign or appointed for a special and often temporary diplomatic assignment. The word is also often used more liberally for persons who are known, without national appointment, to represent certain professions, activities and fields of endeavor such as sales.
Representative
One that serves as an example or type for others of the same classification.
Ambassador
An accredited diplomat sent by a state as its permanent representative in a foreign country
The French ambassador to Portugal
Representative
One that serves as a delegate or agent for another.
Ambassador
A diplomatic official of the highest rank appointed and accredited as representative in residence by one government or sovereign to another, usually for a specific length of time.
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Representative
A member of a governmental body, usually legislative, chosen by popular vote.
Ambassador
A diplomatic official heading their country's permanent mission to certain international organizations, such as the United Nations.
Representative
A member of the US House of Representatives or of the lower house of a state legislature.
Ambassador
An authorized messenger or representative.
Representative
Representing, depicting, or portraying or able to do so.
Ambassador
An unofficial representative
Ambassadors of goodwill.
Representative
Authorized to act as an official delegate or agent.
Ambassador
A minister of the highest rank sent to a foreign court to represent there his sovereign or country. (Sometimes called ambassador-in-residence)
Representative
Of or characteristic of government by representation.
Ambassador
An official messenger and representative.
Representative
Like or typical of others of the same class.
Ambassador
A corporate representative, often the public face of the company.
As front hall porter, you are an ambassador for the hotel.
Representative
Typical; having the same properties or interest as a larger group.
Ambassador
A minister of the highest rank sent to a foreign court to represent there his sovereign or country.
Representative
Representing, showing a likeness.
Are you sure this paper is representative of your child's writing?
The representative faculty of the human imagination
Ambassador
An official messenger and representative.
Representative
A delegate.
Ambassador
A diplomat of the highest rank; accredited as representative from one country to another
Representative
Someone who represents others as a member of a legislative or governing body.
She served four terms as representative of her local at the national union convention.
Ambassador
An informal representative;
An ambassador of good will
Representative
One who speaks for or acts on behalf of another in a particular (especially official) capacity.
I will send a representative to work out the details of the contract.
Representative
(legal) An heir.
Representative
Specifically, a member of the United States House of Representatives.
All representatives face re-election every two years.
Representative
A company agent who visits potential purchasers; a salesman.
Representative
Something standing for something else.
Representative
Something representing or standing for another; a symbol, an embodiment.
Representative
A member of a particular class.
Representative
A substitute or analogue.
Representative
Fitted to represent; exhibiting a similitude.
Representative
Bearing the character or power of another; acting for another or others; as, a council representative of the people.
Representative
Conducted by persons chosen to represent, or act as deputies for, the people; as, a representative government.
Representative
Serving or fitted to present the full characters of the type of a group; typical; as, a representative genus in a family.
Representative
Giving, or existing as, a transcript of what was originally presentative knowledge; as, representative faculties; representative knowledge. See Presentative, 3 and Represent, 8.
Representative
One who, or that which, represents (anything); that which exhibits a likeness or similitude.
A statute of Rumor, whispering an idiot in the ear, who was the representative of Credulity.
Difficulty must cumber this doctrine which supposes that the perfections of God are the representatives to us of whatever we perceive in the creatures.
Representative
An agent, deputy, or substitute, who supplies the place of another, or others, being invested with his or their authority.
Representative
One who represents, or stands in the place of, another.
Representative
A member of the lower or popular house in a State legislature, or in the national Congress.
Representative
That which presents the full character of the type of a group.
Representative
A person who represents others
Representative
An advocate who represents someone else's policy or purpose;
The meeting was attended by spokespersons for all the major organs of government
Representative
A member of the United States House of Representatives
Representative
An item of information that is representative of a type;
This patient provides a typical example of the syndrome
There is an example on page 10
Representative
Serving to represent or typify;
Representative moviegoers
A representative modern play
Representative
Standing for something else;
The bald eagle is representative of the United States
Representative
Being or characteristic of government by representation in which citizens exercise power through elected officers and representatives;
Representative government as defined by Abraham Lincoln is government of the people, by the people, for the people
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