proxies
Meaning
of Proxy
Source: Webster's dictionarySynonyms
Examples
Time, presence and physical attentiveness are our most basic proxies for something ultimately unprovable: that we are understood.
She probably used proxies and a cleaner-upper online too, because there was bugger-all of interest in her cache.” "You have no idea what you're saying, do you, boss?” "None at all. I had the techies write it all out phonetically for me.
In authoritarian societies, cultural institutions tend to become ideological proxies - think of the National Ballet in Cuba or the East German gymnastics team.
Accordingly most debate on the issue has shifted towards a general financial transaction tax which would capture such proxies.
“Acting in the place of the Roman Pontiff, he also confers the pallium upon metropolitan bishops or gives the pallium to their proxies.”
A multitude of proxies support the presence of a warmer equable climate being present during this period of time.