Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One appointed or authorized to act for another, especially a person appointed to vote as one wishes at a meeting.
- noun The authority to act for another.
- noun The written authorization to act in place of another.
- noun An entity or variable used to model or generate data assumed to resemble the data associated with another entity or variable that is typically more difficult to research.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The agency of a substitute; the office or authority of one who is deputed to act for another.
- noun One who is deputed to represent or act for another; a deputy.
- noun A document authorizing one person to act as substitute or deputy for another; a written authorization to exercise the powers and prerogatives of others.
- noun That which takes the place of something else; a substitute.
- noun Eccles., same as
procuration , 4. - noun An election, or a day of election.
- To vote or act by proxy, or by the agency of another.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- intransitive verb rare To act or vote by proxy; to do anything by the agency of another.
- noun The agency for another who acts through the agent; authority to act for another, esp. to vote in a legislative or corporate capacity.
- noun The person who is substituted or deputed to act or vote for another.
- noun A writing by which one person authorizes another to vote in his stead, as in a corporation meeting.
- noun (Eng. Law) The written appointment of a proctor in suits in the ecclesiastical courts.
- noun (Eccl.), obsolete See
Procuration .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun gaming, slang A
proximity mine ; amine that explodes when something approaches within a certain distance. - adjective Used as a proxy or acting as a proxy.
- noun An
agent orsubstitute authorized toact foranother person. - noun The
authority to act for another, especially whenwritten . - noun sciences A measurement of one physical quantity that is used as an indicator of the value of another
- noun software An
interface for a service, especially for one that is remote, resource-intensive, or otherwise difficult to use directly. - verb To serve as a proxy for.
- verb networking To function as a server for a client device, but pass on the requests to another server for service.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a power of attorney document given by shareholders of a corporation authorizing a specific vote on their behalf at a corporate meeting
- noun a person authorized to act for another
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
Support
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word proxy.
Examples
-
After you install GPass, launching an application using the proxy is as simple as double-clicking the app from inside the GPass interface.
GPass Boosts Browsing Privacy, Circumvents Censorship And Filters | Lifehacker Australia 2008
-
After you install GPass, launching an application using the proxy is as simple as double-clicking the app from inside the GPass interface.
-
General Petraeus warned Congress that the U.S. is already fighting what he called a proxy war with Iran.
-
BLITZER: Although yesterday we heard -- we heard Nouri al - Maliki, the prime minister of Iraq, yesterday in an interview with our own Michael Ware, basically equate Iran and the United States, saying he wants both of them to fight what he called their proxy out of Iraq.
-
Analyst and newspaper editor Rashed Rahman says the central problem in the relationship is what he calls the "proxy war that the Pakistan military is waging through the Taliban in Afghanistan."
News 2011
-
A desire to explore, even by mechanical proxy, is now a self-indulgence to be resisted, since the end result would only be the imperial spreading of that pollutant known as humankind.
Across the Universe 2009
-
Every single trick and programming adjustment all tended to have this effect, whether it be in proxy studies or in the instrumental record.
Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » Why the Historical Warming Numbers Matter 2009
-
The records corroborate statements made earlier this month by former borough Mayor Jim Whitaker who said Miller engaged in "proxy voting" in a failed bid to oust state GOP chairman Randy Ruedrich at the 2008 Alaska Republican convention.
Joe Miller: 'I Lied' About Accessing Computers For Political Purposes The Huffington Post 2010
-
If the voting by proxy is true, it should be invalidated.
Global Voices in English » Korea: Why Did Korean Politicians Fight? 2009
-
A desire to explore, even by mechanical proxy, is now a self-indulgence to be resisted, since the end result would only be the imperial spreading of that pollutant known as humankind.
Across the Universe 2009
bilby commented on the word proxy
"In 2006, using U.S. trained and funded Ethiopian troops, the Bush administration intervened by proxy in a Somali civil war to oust a relatively moderate Islamist militia on the verge of unifying that desperate country for the first time in a long while. Two years later, the situation has only deteriorated further: the capital Mogadishu is in chaos, militant Islamists have retaken much of the south, those Ethiopian troops are preparing to withdraw, and the Bush-backed government to fall. At least, ten thousand Somalis have died and more than a third of the population, a jump of 77%, needs aid just to survive."
- Tom Engelhardt, 'F is for Failure: The Bush Doctrine in Ruins', 21 Oct 2008.
October 22, 2008
yarb commented on the word proxy
"Moderate Islamist militia" is about as oxymoronical as it gets.
October 22, 2008