See Also: proxy 1, noun(dictionary)
Proxy(finance)
Proxy tax(finance)
Proxy(health)
Proxy(money)
proxy(medicine)
proxy(dictionary)
PROXY(law)
Duplicate Proxy(money)
Proxy contest(finance)

proxy 1, noun (oh)



[Date: 1400-1500; Language: Anglo-French; Origin: procuracie, from Latin procuratio, from procurare; PROCURE]
by proxy
if you do something by proxy, you arrange for someone else to do it for you
::You can vote by proxy.
[U and C] someone who you choose to represent you, especially to vote for you
proxy for
::a husband acting as proxy for his wife
[C + for] formal something used to represent something else that you want to measure