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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A person authorized to act for another; an agent or substitute.
  2. n. The authority to act for another.
  3. n. The written authorization to act in place of another.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. The agency of a substitute; the office or authority of one who is deputed to act for another.
  2. n. One who is deputed to represent or act for another; a deputy.
  3. n. A document authorizing one person to act as substitute or deputy for another; a written authorization to exercise the powers and prerogatives of others.
  4. n. That which takes the place of something else; a substitute.
  5. n. Eccles., same as procuration, 4.
  6. n. An election, or a day of election.
  7. To vote or act by proxy, or by the agency of another.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. Used as a proxy or acting as a proxy.
  2. n. An agent or substitute authorized to act for another person.
  3. n. The authority to act for another, especially when written.
  4. n. An interface for a service, especially for one that is remote, resource-intensive, or otherwise difficult to use directly.
  5. n. A measurement of one physical quantity that is used as an indicator of the value of another
  6. n. A proximity mine; a mine that explodes when something approaches within a certain distance.
  7. v. To serve as a proxy for.
  8. v. To function as a server for a client device, but pass on the requests to an other server for service.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. The agency for another who acts through the agent; authority to act for another, esp. to vote in a legislative or corporate capacity.
  2. n. The person who is substituted or deputed to act or vote for another.
  3. n. A writing by which one person authorizes another to vote in his stead, as in a corporation meeting.
  4. n. The written appointment of a proctor in suits in the ecclesiastical courts.
  5. n. See Procuration.
  6. v. To act or vote by proxy; to do anything by the agency of another.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. a power of attorney document given by shareholders of a corporation authorizing a specific vote on their behalf at a corporate meeting
  2. n. a person authorized to act for another

Etymologies

  1. Middle English proccy, contraction of earlier procracie, annual payment to a prelate, from Anglo-Norman procuracie, from Medieval Latin prōcūrātia, alteration of Latin prōcūrātiō, from prōcūrātus, past participle of prōcūrāre, to take care of; see procure.

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  • yarb "Moderate Islamist militia" is about as oxymoronical as it gets. Oct 22, 2008

  • bilby "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. Oct 22, 2008

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