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proxy

Legal Definition of proxy

Noun and Verb

A right which is signed-over to an agent. Proxies are used frequently at annual meetings of corporations where the right to exercise a vote is "proxied" from the shareholder to the agent.

Related terms

proxy marriage - common amongst European monarchs, where one party is not present in person to their marriage to the other
proxy murder - a murder committed on behalf of somebody else
proxy voting - a vote cast on behalf of an absent person
proxy statement - information published related to a U.S. stockholders' meeting

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

procuracie

procuratia

procuratio

Adjective

proxy (comparative more proxy, superlative most proxy)

Used as a proxy or acting as a proxy.

a proxy indicator
a proxy measurement

Noun

proxy (plural proxies)

Verb

proxy (third-person singular simple present proxies, present participle proxying, simple past and past participle proxied)

To serve as a proxy for.

* 1983, Alfred Blumstein, National Research Council (U.S.). Panel on Sentencing Research, Research on Sentencing: The Search for Reform, page 143
In many of the studies we reviewed, it is common practice to use an observed variable to proxy for a relevant variable that could not be observed.

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