Proxy

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun ·see Procuration.

II. Proxy ·vi To act or vote by proxy; to do anything by the agency of another.

III. Proxy ·noun The person who is substituted or deputed to act or vote for another.

IV. Proxy ·noun The written appointment of a proctor in suits in the ecclesiastical courts.

V. Proxy ·noun A writing by which one person authorizes another to vote in his stead, as in a corporation meeting.

VI. Proxy ·noun The agency for another who acts through the agent; authority to act for another, ·esp. to vote in a legislative or corporate capacity.

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