proxy
pronunciation
How to pronounce proxy in British English:
UK [ˈprɒksi]
How to pronounce proxy in American English:
US [ˈprɑːksi]
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- Noun:
- a person authorized to act for another
- a power of attorney document given by shareholders of a corporation authorizing a specific vote on their behalf at a corporate meeting
Word Origin
- proxy
- proxy: [15] Proxy has no etymological connection with ‘closeness’. It is a much contracted form of prōcūrātia, the medieval version of Latin prōcūrātiō ‘caring for, taking care of’. This was a noun derived from prōcūrāre, source of English procure. It originally entered English in the 13th century as procuracy, and gradually shrank via procracy and prokecye to proxy. The semantic notion underlying it is of ‘taking care of another’s interests’.=> procure
- proxy (n.)
- early 15c., proccy, prokecye, "agency of one who acts instead of another; letter of power of attorney," contraction of Anglo-French procuracie (c. 1300), from Medieval Latin procuratia "administration," from Latin procuratio "a caring for, management," from procurare "manage" (see procure). Also compare proctor (n.). Meaning "person who acts in place of another" is from 1610s.
Synonym
Example
- 1. The fed makes a proxy for all three .
- 2. Some economists use this as a proxy for hot-money inflows .
- 3. It argues that banks are simply a proxy for middle-class growth .
- 4. Though mr mahato denies it , the pcapa seems little more than a maoist proxy .
- 5. Most people in russia see the fighting there as a proxy war between their country and the west .