Proxy

Definition: Proxy

Proxy

Adjective

1. Acting as substitute for another.

Noun

1. A person authorized to act for another.

2. A power of attorney document given by shareholders of a corporation authorizing a specific vote on their behalf at a corporate meeting.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "proxy" was first used: 14th century. (references)

Note: Proxy \Prox"y\, noun; plural Proxies. [Contr. from procuracy. Compare to Proctor.]. (Websters 1913)

Census

Finance

Health

Law

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

Synonyms: Proxy

Deputy

Noun: deputy, substitute, vice, proxy, locum tenens, badli, delegate, representative, next friend, surrogate, secondary.

Crosswords: Proxy

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

Murder by Proxy (1954)

Foxy by Proxy (1952)

Respectable by Proxy (1920)

Proxy Husband (1919)

Widow by Proxy (1919)

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

Books

• The Hudsucker Proxy (reference)

• Love by Proxy (reference)

• McSe Test Success: Proxy Server 2: Exam 70-088 (McSe Test Success) (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Proxy Resolution Book (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• The Hudsucker Proxy (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Latina by Proxy (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• Multi-Tech Systems Mtpsr1-100: Serial Port Proxy Server F/56K Or ISDN Modem Connect (reference)

• Real Proxy V8.0 for Ce-507 & Cache 3.1.1 (reference)

• Proxy 3.0 1 Master + 1 Hosts (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

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

[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.

The void in the heart does not accommodate itself to a proxy.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

Another form of advance directive is called a durable power of attorney for health care decisions or a health care proxy. (references)

In these instances, proxy indices-including other biological markers or modeled estimates of seroincidence based on behavioral outcomes-can be used to estimate the effects of prevention programs on seroincidence. (references)

Business

According to IDC, anti-virus solutions accounted for 54.5% of the security market in 1999. This figure will decrease to 46.8% in 2002. Additionally, demand for firewalls and proxy servers should decrease 33.1% to 27.1%, and from 3.3% to 2.7%, respectively during the same period. (references)

Civil Liberties

Kazakhstan

Clients of the two largest Internet providers, Kaztelecom and Nursat, periodically were blocked from direct access to the opposition Evrasia Web site, although access was still available through proxy servers. (references)

Bahrain

A government-controlled proxy prohibits user access to sites considered to be antigovernment or anti-Islamic. (references)

United Arab Emirates

In most cases, the proxy server does not appear to block news services, political expression unrelated to radical Islam, or material originating from specific countries. (references)

Political Rights

Niger

The societal practice of husbands' voting their wives' proxy ballots effectively disenfranchises many women. (references)

Tajikistan

There were reports of the inflation of voter turnout and proxy voting in all three districts. (references)

Tajikistan

Irregularities in a number of constituencies including proxy voting, unsealed ballot boxes, stuffed ballot boxes, votes added in favor of a particular party, lack of consistency between the sum of votes counted and the number of ballots issued, discrepancies between votes considered invalid during the count and the final result sheet, and blank copies of protocols signed before the counting of ballots and filled in with pencil during the count. (references)

Trade

Switzerland

The reasons for the rejection were many and varied, but the opposition was successful in casting the vote as a proxy decision on future EU membership and instinctive fears of abandoning neutrality, ceding sovereignty to Brussels, and an unwanted influx of foreigners prevailed. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "proxy": be proxy for ♦ by proxy ♦ Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy ♦ proxy ARP ♦ proxy fight ♦ proxy gateway ♦ proxy server ♦ proxy signature ♦ proxy vote ♦ stand proxy. Additional references.

Ending with "proxy": Munchausen-by-proxy.

Albanian

prokurë, përfaqësim (representation), i pajisur me prokurë (procurator), i autorizuar (authorized, canonic, canonical, entrusting), fuqi (capacity, energy, exponent, force, intensity, lustiness, might, output, potency, power, ratio, strength, vigor, vigour), autorizim (authorization, commission, permission, permit, procuration, warranty). (various references)

Arabic 

‏مفوض (authorized, commissioned, commissioner, delegate, deputy, mandatary), ‏نيابة (replacement, representation, substitution), ‏وكالة (agency, commission, dealership, procuration), ‏وثيقة (bill, deed, document, instrument, paper, record, script), ‏تفويض (authorization, commission, delegacy, delegation, deputation, mandate, power of attorney, procuration, warrant, warranty), ‏الوكيل (attorney, fiduciary, representative). (various references)

Bulgarian 

чрез заместник, чрез пълномощник (by procuration), заместник (alternate, deputy, lieutenant, pinch hitter, replacement, secondary, stand by, stand in, sub, substitute, succedaneum, successor, surrogate, vice, vicegerent), пълномощно (commission, letter of attorney, procuration, trust deed, warrant), пълномощник (agent, assignee, attorney, commissary, deputy, employer, factor, mandatary, mandatory, procurator, vicegerent), пълномощие (authority, commission, deputation), делегация (delegacy, delegation, mission). (various references)

Chinese 

代理人 (Proxies, surrogate). (various references)

Czech

plnomocník, plná moc (power, power of attorney, retainer, warrant), zastupování, zástupce (agent, alternate, deputy, lawyer, procurator, representative, substitute). (various references)

Danish

stedfortræder (alternate), fuldmagt (act of delegation, authority, delegation, letter of attorney, power of attorney). (various references)

Dutch

procuratie, volmachtsakte, volmachtbrief (letter of attorney), volmacht (authorization, mandate), gevolmachtigde (nominee, representative). (various references)

Farsi 

نماینده (Agent, Delegate, Deputation, Deputy, Doer, Envoy, Exponent, Indicator, Representation, Representative, Symptomatic), وکیل (Agent, Attorney, Deputy, Lieutenant), وکالتنامه , وکالت (Advocacy, Agency, Attorney, Bar, Deputation, Proctorship), بنمایندگی دیگری رای دادن . (various references)

Finnish

valtuutettu asiamies, valtakirja (credentials, power of attorney). (various references)

French

pouvoir, fondé de pouvoir (procurator). (various references)

German

vertretung (agency, holding, legation, replacement, representation, representational party, representativeness, substitute, supporting), Stellvertretung (by deputy), stellvertreter (agent, attorney, attorney in fact, deputy, locum, replacement, representative, surrogate, understudy). (various references)

Greek 

έγγραφο εξουσιοδότησης, πληρεξούσιοσ (attorney, deputy, plenipotentiary, procurator), πληρεξούσιο έγγραφο, πληρεξούσιο (mandate), πληρεξουσιότησ (full powers), πληρεξουσιότητα (full powers), υποκατάστατη μεταβλητή, εξουσιοδότηση (authorisation, authorization, delegation, fiat, warrant, warranty), εντολοδόχοσ (assignee, representative). (various references)

Hebrew 

מיופ�" כח (accredited, authorized, empowered, plenipotentiary), בא כח (agent, attorney, delegate, representative, spokesman). (various references)

Hungarian

meghatalmazott (accredited, commissioned, commissioner, delegate, mandatory, substitute, trustee), megbízott (accredited, agent, assign, commissioned, commissioner, deputy, emissary, mandatary, mandatory, Proctor, representative, trustee, vakeel, vicarious), helyettes (acting, alternate, assistant, deputy, fill in, lieutenant, locum tenens, stand-in, substitute, supply, surrogate, vicar, vice). (various references)

Italian

procura (attorney, power of attorney). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

プレヤデス星団 (PD, Pleiades cluster, prelude, prerelease, probe, professional, program, program analyzer, program director, programmer, programming), 名代 (fame, representative, well-known), �"任状 (commission), 代行者 (agent), 代理者 (agent, alternate, attorney, deputy, representative, substitute), 代理人 (agent, alternate, attorney, deputy, representative, substitute), 代理 (acting, agency, agent, alternate, attorney, deputy, representation, substitute), 代人 (agent, deputy, representative, substitute), 代�"� , 代り (alternate, compensation, deputy, relief, second helping, substitute), 代わり (alternate, compensation, deputy, relief, second helping, substitute), 代え (substitute). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

プロキシ , かわり (a replacement, a turn, alteration, alternate, an exchange transaction, change, compensation, deputy, difference, relief, second helping, strangeness, substitute), かえ (alteration, change, changing, rate of exchange, substitute), いに�"じょう (commission), みょう� い (representative), � いに�" (acting official, adult, agency, agent, deputy, representative, substitute), � いい�" (signing by proxy), � い�"うしゃ (agent), � いりしゃ (agent, alternate, attorney, deputy, representative, substitute), � いりに�" (agent, alternate, attorney, deputy, representative, substitute), � いり (acting, agency, agent, alternate, attorney, deputy, imperial palace, representation, substitute). (various references)

Korean 

대리권 (Proxies). (various references)

Manx

ynnydee (assignee, commissary, locum tenens, procurator, substitute), shagh-teiyder, meoirys (mayorship). (various references)

Pig Latin

oxypray

Portuguese

procuração (commission, power of attorney, procuration, warrant). (various references)

Romanian

reprezentat (figured), mandatar (mandatory, representative), mandat (commission, innings, mandate, seat, warrant, writ), delegat (authorized, commissary, delegate, deputy, mandatory, representative, substitute), delegaţie (autorization, commission, delegacy, delegation, deputation, legation, mission, representation), împuternicit (attorney, commissary, commissioner, mandatory, representative), împuternicire (commission, delegacy, deputation, letter of attorney, mandate, power of attorney, procuration, vicarious power, warrant, warrant of attorney). (various references)

Russian 

уполномоченный (assignee, authorised, commissioner), сделанный (done, made), доверенный (fiduciary, trust), доверенность (commission, empowerment, letter of attorney, letter of authority, poa, power of attorney, procuration). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

punomoćstvo, zastupnik (agent, assignee, defender, locum tenens, mandatary, pleader, representative, spokesman), zastupanje. (various references)

Spanish

procuración (procuration, procuratory, procurement), poderhabiente, poder (ability, ascendancy, authority, be able, be able to, can, capability, capacity, dominion, ennoblement, know how, may, might, mightiness, power, power of attorney, puissance, sway, to be able, warrant), variable sustitutiva, apoderado (agent, assignee, attorney, attorney in fact, procurator, representative). (various references)

Swedish

ombud (agent, attorney, attorneys, delegate, representative), fullmakt (commission, letters of appointment, power of attorney, procuration, warrant, warrent). (various references)

Turkish

vekillik (delegacy, guardianship, ministry, representation, trusteeship), vekil (administrator, alternate, assignee, attorney, commissary, commissioner, delegate, deputy, lieutenant, locum, locum tenens, minister, nominee, representative, stand in, substitute, supply, surrogate, vicar, vice, vice gerent), vekâletname (letter of attorney, power of attorney, procuration, trust deed, warrant, warrant of attorney), vekâlet (mandate, power of attorney, procuration, succession). (various references)

Ukrainian

уповноважений (assignee, authorized, commissary, mandatory, syndic), заступництво (auspices, favour, patronage, pleading, protection, protectorate, protectorship, push, shelter), повірений (attorney, mandatory, procurator, solicitor), повноваження (authority, warrant), доручення (authorization, delegation, errand, mandate, message, mission, procurance, procuration, procuratory). (various references)

Vietnamese 

sự uỷ quyền người đại diện, sự uỷ nhiệm, người thay mặt (deputy, procurator), do uỷ quyền. (various references)

procuratio. (various references)

procuratia. (various references)

Misspellings

"Proxy" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: aprox, croxy, froxy, paroxy, pordy, poxi, poxie, poxy, prax, praxie, preux, prex, prexy, prixy, Procys, prody, profy, progy, proux, prowy, proxcy, proxi, proxie, proxyi, proxys, prudy, prxoy, roxy, ruxy, troxy. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: oryx, ropy.

-2 letters: oxy, pox, pro, pry, pyx.

-3 letters: op, or, ox, oy, yo.

+1 letter: peroxy.

+3 letters: paroxysm, prolixly, pyroxene, xylocarp.

+4 letters: expiatory, expletory, paroxysms, prolixity, proximity, pyridoxal, pyroxenes, pyroxenic, pyroxylin, xerophily, xerophyte, xylocarps, xylograph.

+5 letters: auxotrophy, expiratory, expository, oropharynx, paroxysmal, phylloxera, praxeology, protoxylem, proximally, pyridoxals, pyridoxine, pyroxenite, pyroxenoid, pyroxylins, thixotropy, xerography, xerophytes, xerophytic, xylographs, xylography.