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US
/ˈpɹɑksi/
]
[ UK /pɹˈɒksi/ ]
[ UK /pɹˈɒksi/ ]
NOUN
- a person authorized to act for another
- a power of attorney document given by shareholders of a corporation authorizing a specific vote on their behalf at a corporate meeting
How To Use proxy In A Sentence
- Proxy settings Most Access Providers have a server that caches copies of popular Web sites.
- Even as home prices continued to fall industrywide and the number of new houses under construction kept sinking, Paul Saville , the chief executive of NVR Inc., received total 2010 compensation valued at nearly $31 million, according to NVR's proxy statement. NVR Pays Top Dollar
- Thomas Pynchon 's Gravity's Rainbow, the vocoder is a vehicle, a proxy for forces bigger than the freaks-Egyptian Lover, JFK-who employ it. Village Voice - The most recent 10 stories
- Once verified, the proxy agent completes the connection to the protected network element on behalf of the source of the incoming request.
- Neither side has an interest in a proxy war or instability in their northern neighbour. Times, Sunday Times
- Detectives discovered the proxy voters had been in the country after all. Times, Sunday Times
- M. le Comte's guests followed closely on the triumphant bridegroom's heels: M. le préfet, fussy and nervous, secretly delighted at the idea of affixing his official signature to such an aristocratic _contrat de mariage_ as was this between M.le. de Cambray de Brestalou and M. Victor de M.rmont, own nephew to M.rshal the duc de Raguse; M.dame la préfète, resplendent in the latest fashion from Paris, the Duc and Duchesse d'Embrun, cousins of the bride, the Vicomte de Génevois and his mother, who was Abbess of Pont Haut and godmother by proxy to Crystal de The Bronze Eagle A Story of the Hundred Days
- Another important result of dendrochronological dating of large samples of subfossil wood is the ability to calculate the relative abundance of Siberian spruce in forest stands of the area, which is an index or proxy for the degree of continentality of the climate. Climate change and forest distribution in the Arctic
- Space races, in any case, have form as proxy contests between superpowers. Times, Sunday Times
- Ayres and Martiñas (1995) also argue that the exergy of waste streams is a proxy for their potential ecotoxicity or harm to the environment, at least in general terms. Energy quality