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BY PROXY

Specialty Definition: BY PROXY

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General

A written authorization by a stockholder designating another person to vote for him. Source: European Union. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Crosswords: BY PROXY

English words defined with "BY PROXY": voting right. (references)

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Modern Usage: BY PROXY

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Screenplays

Munchausen By Proxy. Caretakers who induce physical illness in others in order to gain attention (The Division; writing credit: Guglielmo Enea; Marcello Fois)

Lyrics

She's loving by proxy, no give and all take ((I Just) Died In Your Arms; performing artist: Cutting Crew)

Movie/TV Titles

Murder by Proxy (1954)

Foxy by Proxy (1952)

Respectable by Proxy (1920)

Widow by Proxy (1919)

Cupid by Proxy (1918)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: BY PROXY

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Books

  • Munchausen's Syndrome by Proxy Reconsidered (reference)

  • Trust Betrayed: Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy, Inter-Agency Child Protection and Partnership with Families (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Photo Album: BY PROXY

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[Army Nurses bury by proxy Hitler and Tojo]. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Expression: BY PROXY

Expression using "BY PROXY": Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy. Additional references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: BY PROXY

Language Translations for "BY PROXY"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Dutch

  

bij volmacht. (various references)

   

Finnish

  

valtakirjalla. (various references)

   

French

  

par procuration. (various references)

   

German

  

per prokura, in Vertretung. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

megbízásból. (various references)

   

Italian

  

per procura (proxy). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

代言 (advocacy, attorney, pleading by proxy, speaking for another), 代願 (applying by proxy, praying by proxy), 代理投票 (voting by proxy), 代理戦争 (war by proxy), 代執行 (carrying out by proxy), 代弁 (act for another, pay by proxy, speak for another), 代印 (signing by proxy). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

いが" (applying by proxy, praying by proxy, your face), いしっ"う (carrying out by proxy), いべ" (act for another, excrement, feces, pay by proxy, speak for another), いい" (proxy, signing by proxy), いりせ"そう (war by proxy), いりとうひょう (voting by proxy), い'" (advocacy, attorney, epigraph, pleading by proxy, prefatory words, speaking for another). (various references)

   

Manx

  

shagh-votal y yannoo (to vote by proxy). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ybay oxypray.(various references)

   

Portuguese

  

casamento por procuração (marriage by proxy). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

prin împuternicire (vicarious). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

по доверенности (by deputy). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

vigsel genom ombud (marriage by proxy), fjärrvigsel (marriage by proxy). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

vekâleten (by attorney, per pro, per procurationem, substitutional), vekâlet ile. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: BY PROXY

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "b-o-p-r-x-y-y"

-2 letters: proxy.

-3 letters: boxy, orby, oryx, ropy.

-4 letters: bop, box, boy, bro, orb, oxy, pox, pro, pry, pyx, rob, yob.

-5 letters: bo, by, op, or, ox, oy, yo.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Crosswords
2. Usage: Modern
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Images: Photo Album
5. Expressions
6. Translations: Modern
7. Anagrams
8. Bibliography


  

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