proxy
Speech parts
1. proxy - Noun
2. proxy - Adjective
3. proxy - Verb
Meaning
The agency for another who acts through the agent; authority to act for another, esp. to vote in a legislative or corporate capacity.
The person who is substituted or deputed to act or vote for another.
A writing by which one person authorizes another to vote in his stead, as in a corporation meeting.
The written appointment of a proctor in suits in the ecclesiastical courts.
See Procuration.
To act or vote by proxy; to do anything by the agency of another.
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And for any agents or proxy of the regime interested in asking me questions face to face, I've got some bullets slathered in pork fat to make you feel extra special welcome.
A nice state of affairs when a man has to indulge his vices by proxy.
Although size and book to market equity seem like ad hoc variables for explaining average stock returns, we have reason to expect that they proxy for common risk factors in returns.
We (Muslims) are actually very strong. 1.3 billion people cannot be simply wiped out. The Europeans killed 6 million Jews out of 12 million. But today the Jews rule the world by proxy. They get others to fight and die for them.
I was interested in variations in temperatures of the oceans over the past millennium. But there are no records of these changes so I had to find proxy measures: coral growth, ice cores and tree rings.
Never do that by proxy which you can do yourself.