Proxy Definition

prŏksē
proxies
noun
proxies
The agency or function of a deputy.
Webster's New World
The authority to act for another.
Webster's New World
A document empowering a person to act for another, as in voting at a stockholders' meeting.
Webster's New World
A person empowered to act for another.
Webster's New World
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.
American Heritage Medicine
verb
(networking) To function as a server for a client device, but pass on the requests to another server for service.
Wiktionary
To serve as a proxy for.
Wiktionary
adjective
Used as a proxy or acting as a proxy.
A proxy indicator.
A proxy measurement.
Wiktionary

Other Word Forms of Proxy

Noun

Singular:
proxy
Plural:
proxies

Origin of Proxy

  • Middle English proccy contraction of earlier procracie annual payment to a prelate from Anglo-Norman procuracie from Medieval Latin prōcūrātia alteration of Latin prōcūrātiō from prōcūrātus past participle of prōcūrāre to take care of procure

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • Contraction of Anglo-Norman procuracie, from Medieval Latin procuratia, from Latin procuratio.

    From Wiktionary

  • proximity + -y

    From Wiktionary

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