proxy
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Noun (2)proxies
- a person authorized to act for anotherSynonyms: placeholderprocuratorType of agent
- a power of attorney document given by shareholders of a corporation authorizing a specific vote on their behalf at a corporate meetingType of power of attorney
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Translations
Noun proxy, authorised substitute
- Spanish
- apoderado
- French
- mandataire
- German
- Bevollmächtigter
- Italian
- mandatario
- Portuguese
- procurador
- Turkish
- vekil
- Russian
- дове́ренное лицо́ dovérennoje licó
- Chinese
- 代理 dàilǐ
- Japanese
- 代理 dairi
- Polish
- przedstawiciel
12 more languages
- Korean
- 대리 daeri
- Indonesian
- proksi
- Portuguese (PT)
- procurador
- Chinese (Trad.)
- 代理 dàilǐ
- Catalan
- apoderat
- Czech
- zástupce
- Esperanto
- anstataŭulo
- Finnish
- edustaja
- Hebrew
- שָׁלִיחַ shalíakh
- Icelandic
- staðgengill
- Norwegian
- stedfortreder
- Romanian
- procurist
Noun authority to act for another, especially when written
- Spanish
- poder
- French
- procuration
- Italian
- delega
- Portuguese
- procuração
- Chinese
- 代理权 dàilǐquán
- Portuguese (PT)
- procuração
- Finnish
- valtakirja
- Latvian
- uzdevums
- Norwegian
- fullmakt
The main translation for each meaning, from the langtolang.com multilingual dictionary. Each word links to its full entry there.
Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Origin: 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.— Edmund 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, Sir William
3. A writing by which one person authorizes another to vote in his stead, as in a corporation meeting.
4. English law The written appointment of a proctor in suits in the ecclesiastical courts. Alexander Mansfield. Burrill
5. Church See Procuration. obsolete
To act or vote by proxy; to do anything by the agency of another. rare
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54
Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
<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.
(2007-09-03)