rep
A fabric made of silk or wool, or of silk and wool, and having a transversely corded…A fabric made of silk or wool, or of silk and wool, and having a transversely corded or ribbed surface.
» I had to wait 20 minutes on the phone before reaching the customer service rep.
Meaning
1 senses(countable, uncountable)A fabric made of silk or wool, or of silk and wool, and having a transversely corded or ribbed surface.
репсreps
- a fabric with prominent rounded crosswise ribs
- informal abbreviation of ‘representative’
Examples
8 sentencesI had to wait 20 minutes on the phone before reaching the customer service rep.
I'm a sales rep.
deIch bin Handelsvertreter. — Pfirsichbaeumchen
Tom always does ten reps per set.
Tom did three sets of twenty reps.
Please send your sales reps to this new account.
Translations
2 languagesBy meaning 1
Origin
Back-formation from reps, misinterpreted as a plural.Back-formation from reps, misinterpreted as a plural.
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Forms
plural: repsSynonyms
1 synonyms- a fabric with prominent rounded crosswise ribs:repp
Lessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable