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Proxies

Proxy \Prox"y\, n.; pl. Proxies. [Contr. from procuracy. Cf. Proctor.]

  1. The agency for another who acts through the agent; authority to act for another, esp. to vote in a legislative or corporate capacity.

    I have no man's proxy: I speak only for myself.
    --Burke.

  2. The person who is substituted or deputed to act or vote for another.

    Every peer . . . may make another lord of parliament his proxy, to vote for him in his absence.
    --Blackstone.

  3. A writing by which one person authorizes another to vote in his stead, as in a corporation meeting.

  4. (Eng. Law) The written appointment of a proctor in suits in the ecclesiastical courts.
    --Burrill.

  5. (Eccl.) See Procuration. [Obs.]

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proxies

n. (proxy English)

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Proxies (band)

Proxies were a British alternative rock band that combined many styles of rock and electronica, founded in Yorkshire, England in 2010.

Proxies (film)

Proxies is a 1921 American silent drama film feature produced by Cosmopolitan Productions and distributed by Paramount Pictures. It was directed by George D. Baker and starred Norman Kerry. A copy is preserved at the Library of Congress.

Usage examples of "proxies".

Being proxy meant you could speak for the Ennead, except that there were two kinds of proxies, reckoners and warders, and his parents were warders, which meant they stayed here in the Holding to work for the Ennead.

And now deep radar suggested that there were changes in the unexplored regions in the deepest part of Tigris Rift, which the proxies had not yet been able to reach.

Perhaps you should be attending to your proxies instead of planning useless expeditions.

Margaret had to switch proxies three times before she found one she could operate.

All around her, proxies were fluttering and jinking, as if caught in strong currents instead of floating in vacuum in virtual free fall.

A few, badly damaged by collision, had been stranded among the reef colonies, but proxies sent to retrieve them went out of control too.

Margaret had several dead proxies collected by a maintenance robot and ordered that the survivors should be regrouped and kept above the deep part of the Rift where the vacuum organisms proliferated.

The survey crew and its proxies were restricted to the upper level of the reef.

They were like tiny, tentacle-less proxies, their swollen mantles cased in something like keratin.

That meant that they were powerful enough to be proxies for the Ennead.

When Evrael returned home, a message from his brother awaited him, having wended its slow way to Khine through the proxies who now made a trade of bearing such messages.

Helpless to prevent the corruption at their head, the proxies fragmented into distrust and mutual blame rather than joining forces to contain it.

An aggregate of things the boy had heard, from proxies, from his master.

Holding taking the brightest of their bright mages and sending them only unresponsive proxies in return.

And now deep radar suggested that there were changes in the unexplored regions in the deepest part of Tigris Rift, which the proxies had not yet successfully penetrated.