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Proxy

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Noun

1. placeholder, procurator, proxy

a person authorized to act for another

2. proxy

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

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.


Proxy

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nounWord forms: plural proxies
1. 
a person authorized to act on behalf of someone else; agent
to vote by proxy
2. 
the authority, esp in the form of a document, given to a person to act on behalf of someone else
3. computing short for proxy server

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Proxy

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nounWord forms: plural ˈproxies
1. 
the agency or function of a deputy
2. 
the authority to act for another
3. 
a document empowering a person to act for another, as in voting at a stockholders' meeting
4. 
a person empowered to act for another

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Proxy

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n. pl. prox·ies
1.
a. One appointed or authorized to act for another, especially a person appointed to vote as one wishes at a meeting.
b. The authority to act for another.
c. The written authorization to act in place of another.
2. An entity or variable used to model or generate data assumed to resemble the data associated with another entity or variable that is typically more difficult to research.
3. Computers A server that processes requests and forwards information between a client and another server.

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