Proxy

proxy
    n 1: a person authorized to act for another [syn: {proxy},
         {placeholder}, {procurator}]
    2: a power of attorney document given by shareholders of a
       corporation authorizing a specific vote on their behalf at a
       corporate meeting
    

Procuration \Proc`u*ra"tion\, n. [L. procuratio: cf. F.
   procuration. See {Procure}.]
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   1. The act of procuring; procurement.
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   2. The management of another's affairs.
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   3. The instrument by which a person is empowered to transact
      the affairs of another; a proxy.
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   4. (Ch. of Eng.) A sum of money paid formerly to the bishop
      or archdeacon, now to the ecclesiastical commissioners, by
      an incumbent, as a commutation for entertainment at the
      time of visitation; -- called also {proxy}.
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   {Procuration money} (Law), money paid for procuring a loan.
      --Blackstone.
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Proxy \Prox"y\, v. i.
   To act or vote by proxy; to do anything by the agency of
   another. [R.]
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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.
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            I have no man's proxy: I speak only for myself.
                                                  --Burke.
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   2. The person who is substituted or deputed to act or vote
      for another.
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            Every peer . . . may make another lord of parliament
            his proxy, to vote for him in his absence.
                                                  --Blackstone.
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   3. A writing by which one person authorizes another to vote
      in his stead, as in a corporation meeting.
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   4. (Eng. Law) The written appointment of a proctor in suits
      in the ecclesiastical courts. --Burrill.
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   5. (Eccl.) See {Procuration}. [Obs.]
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proxy

   <networking> A process that accepts requests for some service
   and passes them on to the real {server}.  A proxy may run on
   dedicated {hardware} or may be purely {software}.  It may
   transform the request in some way or provide some additional
   layer of functionality such as {caching} or remote access.  A
   proxy may be intended to increase security, e.g. a {web proxy}
   that allows multiple clients inside an organisation to access
   the {Internet} through a single secure, shared connection.

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PROXY. A person, appointed in the place of another, to represent him. 
     2. In the ecclesiastical law, a judicial proctor, or one who is 
appointed to manage another man's law concerns, is called a proxy. Ayl. 
Parerg. 
     3. The instrument by which a person is appointed so to act, is likewise 
called a proxy. 
     4. Proxies are also annual payments made by the parochial clergy to the 
bishop, &c., on visitations. Tom. Law Dictionary, h.t. Vide Rutherf. Inst. 
253; Hall's Pr. 14. 
     5. The right of voting at an election of an incorporated company by 
proxy is not a general right, and the party claiming it must show a special 
authority for that purpose. Ang. on Corp. 67-69; 1 Paige's Ch. Rep. 590; 5 
Day's Rep. 329; 5 Cowen, Rep. 426. 
    

211 Moby Thesaurus words for "proxy":
      Australian ballot, Hare system, Indiana ballot,
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      agentship, alter ego, alternate, alternative, amicus curiae,
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      fake, figurehead, fill-in, floater, franchise, fraudulent voter,
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      makeshift, mandate, metaphor, metonymy, mission, mock, nay,
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      office, office-block ballot, paranymph, party emblem,
      party-column ballot, personnel, phony, pinch, pinch hitter,
      pleader, plebiscite, plebiscitum, plenipotentiary power, plumper,
      plural vote, poll, polling, power of attorney, power to act,
      preferential voting, procuration, procurator,
      proportional representation, provisional, purview, record vote,
      referendum, regency, regentship, registered voter, relief,
      repeater, replacement, representation, representative, reserve,
      reserves, responsibility, right to vote, ringer, rising vote,
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      secret ballot, short ballot, show of hands, sign, single vote,
      slate, snap vote, spare, spares, split ticket, stand-in, stopgap,
      straight ticket, straw vote, sub, substituent, substitute,
      substitution, succedaneum, suffrage, superseder, supplanter,
      surrogate, symbol, synecdoche, task, temporary, tentative,
      third string, ticket, token, transferable vote, trust, trusteeship,
      understudy, utility, utility man, utility player, vicar,
      vicar general, vicarious, vicarious authority, vice,
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      voice vote, vote, voter, voting, voting right, warrant, write-in,
      write-in vote, yea, yeas and nays, yes