PROXY
What does "PROXY" mean?
A person authorized to act for another, or a thing that stands in for something else.
Meanings
- The authority to represent someone else, especially in voting; or the person holding that authority. Unable to attend, she voted by proxy at the shareholders' meeting.
- A figure or measure that stands in for something harder to observe directly. Tree-ring width is used as a proxy for past rainfall. technical
- An intermediary server that forwards requests between a user and the internet. The company routes all web traffic through a proxy for security. technical
Word origin
A contraction of Middle English 'procuracie', from Latin 'procuratio' ('management, agency'), from 'procurare' ('to take care of, manage on another's behalf').
Remember it
A PROXY is a PRO who acts in your place - the 'pro' even means 'on behalf of' in Latin.
A little poem
Send my name where I cannot go;
let someone else's hand raise mine.
A vote, a voice, a borrowed yes.
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Wordplay
- I asked my friend to attend the meeting as my proxy. Now he gets to be bored on my behalf.
What it teaches
Stand-ins are useful, but no one feels the room the way the absent one would have.
Quick facts
What does PROXY mean?
A person authorized to act for another, or a thing that stands in for something else.
Is PROXY a valid word?
Yes — PROXY is one of the answer words in Wordul, the daily word game.
How many letters is PROXY?
PROXY has 5 letters and 2 syllables.
Where does PROXY come from?
A contraction of Middle English 'procuracie', from Latin 'procuratio' ('management, agency'), from 'procurare' ('to take care of, manage on another's behalf').
What can PROXY teach us?
Stand-ins are useful, but no one feels the room the way the absent one would have.
How players do
Be the first to solve it.