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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a person authorized to act for another [syn: placeholder , procurator ] a power of attorney document given by shareholders of a corporation authorizing a specific vote on their behalf at a corporate meeting
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" Proxy " is a song by Dutch DJ and record producer Martin Garrix . It was released as a free download on 6 March 2014 and on 2 July 2014 on iTunes . The song has charted in the Netherlands .
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 15c., proccy , prokecye , "agency of one who acts instead of another; letter of power of attorney," contraction of Anglo-French procuracie (c.1300), from Medieval Latin procuratia "administration," from Latin procuratio "a caring for, management," ...
Usage examples of proxy.
In October the princess Louisa, youngest daughter of his Britannic majesty, was married by proxy, at Hanover, to the prince-royal of Denmark, who met her at Altona, and conducted her to Copenhagen.
This being a state occasion, at least by proxy, every woman attending the festivities wore a stola, and every man a toga, and I was pleased that my sartor had insisted on making one of those for me.
The English were sending Lord Harcourt to Strelitz immediately and as soon as he arrived the proxy ceremony was to take place, and immediately it was over she was to sail for England.
She treats the roiling, surging channels of superconductivity far below as she formerly did the highways and byways of the Net, as yet another domain to rule by proxy, by subroutine, by force of will.
The man eligible for promotion from the novices or uninitiates was almost invariably in attendance, but if his presence could not be secured--say, because he was in gaol, in Longridge Barracks, or at the Cascades--he was admitted by proxy, the proxy, one of the initiates, being compelled to administer the rite to the newly-elected at the earliest opportunity.
Each new self-portrait is yet another stylization of fetishized femininity, one more prosthetic proxy for an unpresentable self.
Hawk had concluded the deal with David and Abraham Solomon which relied on her shares and proxy in the new conglomerate for him to be chairman.
They packed her clothes, all except for the tracksuit Barbs wore for skydiving, and the dress she had worn to Blackpool when Penny and Kate had to be her proxies on the Big Max.
He tends to the needs of three brothels owned by Cedarbird through a proxy company.
I took the liberty of interviewing an expert on Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy over the phone.
As Elkland outlines Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy for Colin, Metz thinks back to his original ex parte motion, lobbed at the judge for the hell of it, but clearly now an unconscious stroke of genius.
Isolating the child from the mother is the way Munchausen by Proxy is usually detected by mental-health professionals.
Metz does at his big-city firm, I still have not had a chance to research Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy.
Out of those five or six hundred patients, how many have you personally diagnosed with Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy?
The perpetrators of Munchausen by Proxy traditionally have an emotionally distant childhood, which Mariah White did not have.