rep

Rep is most often used as a shortening of several common words, including repetition, representative, and reputation, as well as many others.

When used to mean repetition, rep is most commonly used in exercise and weightlifting, as in six reps on the leg press. When used to mean representative, rep is often used in customer service and sales. It’s also used in US politics, in which a Representative is a member of the House of Representatives. When it’s used to mean reputation, rep is mostly used in very informal settings, often referring to someone’s favor with others in a similar group.

Sometimes rep is more common than the full term. The context that rep is used in usually hints at which term the shortening represents.

Example: Please contact a sales rep if you have any problems with your order.

Rep most frequently used as a shortening of many common words. The first records of rep to mean “reputation” come from around 1677, while the first records of the rep to mean “repetition” come from around 1936.

Rep can also be a shortened form of repair, repeat, report, Republic, and many other words.

What are some synonyms for rep?

• reputation
• repetition
• representative
• repair
• repeat

What are some words that share a root or word element with rep? 

• repair
• repetition
• representative
• reputation

Rep is a commonly used shortening of many different words. The surrounding words usually give you a clue about what rep means in that case.

Me: 'excuse me, I am going to the beach and I need to buy some flip flops' . Sales rep: 'O you mean thong slippers'. – Whaaatt!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

— Emma Watson (@EmmaWatson) March 26, 2013

Shaquem Griffin just did 20 reps of 225 pounds on the bench press. He has one hand.

— Will Brinson (@WillBrinson) March 3, 2018

Gym thoughts: its not that i can't do 50 reps, i just dont have the attention span to count to 50. :/

— Amber Liu 刘逸云 (@amberliu) April 30, 2016