Acting and Representative

Acting

Acting adjective - Serving in a position for the time being.

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Representative and acting are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Representative" instead an adjective "Acting".

Nearby Words: act, action, active, acted, actor

Representative adjective - Having or showing the qualities associated with the members of a particular group or kind.

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Acting and representative are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Acting" instead an adjective "Representative".

human	human acting	human representative
good	good acting	good representative
best	best acting	best representative
better	better acting	better representative
Other adjectives: dead, actual, real, new, last.

As such, the latter is necessarily tasked with acting as a representative of the former.

Source: Mysterious Employer
In The Wicker Man, Howie is slated to be the sacrifice because he's still a virgin, because he's acting as a representative of the Crown, and maybe other reasons.

Source: Targeted Human Sacrifice
In one episode, Congress is reviewing Project Quantum Leap's funding and leans on Al (acting as the project's representative) to have Sam alter history in ways beneficial to the US.

Source: You Already Changed the Past

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