Other forms: proxies
A proxy is somebody who votes on your behalf. Vote by proxy, a proxy vote, appoint a proxy.
In company meetings and in elections a proxy carries your vote when you cannot attend, and the paperwork is called a proxy form. It also names anything standing in for something else: income is used as a proxy for wealth, which is a common and imperfect substitution in research. In computing, a proxy server passes requests on your behalf. Note proxy war, fought through others.
1nounproxySomebody who votes on your behalf.
“I couldn't attend the meeting, so my sister voted as my proxy.”
2nounanythingAnything standing in for something else.
“Doctors use blood pressure as a proxy for heart health.”
proxy is a stand-in.
Middle English procucie is a contraction of procuracy, from Latin procuratio, management. Procure and proctor come from the same managing.
Latin
prōcūrātiō
Medieval Latin
procuratia
Anglo-Norman
procuracie
Middle English
procucie
English, today
proxy
Middle English procucie, contraction of procuracie, from Anglo-Norman procuracie, from Medieval Latin procuratia, from Latin prōcūrātiō, from Latin prōcūrō (“to manage, administer”) (English procure). Compare proctor.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA