Usually means: Substitute acting for another person.
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We found 60 dictionaries that define the word proxy:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. proxy: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. proxy: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. proxy: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. proxy: Collins English Dictionary
  5. proxy: Vocabulary.com
  6. Proxy, proxy: Wordnik
  7. proxy: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. proxy: Wiktionary
  9. proxy: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. proxy: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. proxy: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. proxy: Dictionary.com
  13. proxy: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. proxy: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Proxy (album), Proxy (climate), Proxy (disambiguation), Proxy (film), Proxy (novel), Proxy (song), Proxy (statistics), Proxy: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Proxy: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. proxy: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. proxy: Rhymezone
  19. proxy: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. proxy: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. proxy: Free Dictionary
  22. proxy: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. proxy: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. proxy: Webster's New World Finance & Investment Dictionary
  3. proxy: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  4. Duhaime's Canadian law dictionary (No longer online)
  5. proxy: Law.com Dictionary
  6. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  7. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  8. THE 'LECTRIC LAW LIBRARY'S REFERENCE ROOM (No longer online)
  9. PROXY: Accounting Glossary
  10. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  11. Proxy: bizterms.net
  12. proxy: Finance-Glossary.com
  13. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  14. Proxy: Investopedia
  15. Comprehensive Financial (No longer online)
  16. Proxy: INSOLVENCY
  17. Proxy: Securities Terminology
  18. proxy: Legal dictionary
  19. proxy: Financial dictionary
  20. Proxy: Accounting, Business Studies and Economics Dictionary
  21. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)
  22. Proxy: WashingtonPost.com: Business
  23. Yahoo Tax Center Glossary (No longer online)

Computing (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. proxy: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. Proxy: Game Dictionary
  3. proxy: Hacking Lexicon
  4. I T Glossary (No longer online)
  5. proxy: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. proxy: Medical dictionary
  4. WeMove Glossary of Terms (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. proxy: Political

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Proxy: Backgammon

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. proxy: Webster's New World Telecom Dictionary

(Note: See proxies as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Used as a proxy or acting as a proxy.
noun:  An agent or substitute authorized to act for another person.
noun:  The authority to act for another, especially when written.
noun:  The written appointment of a proctor in suits in the ecclesiastical courts
noun:  (sciences) A measurement of one physical quantity that is used as an indicator of the value of another
noun:  (software) An interface for a service, especially for one that is remote, resource-intensive, or otherwise difficult to use directly.
verb:  To serve as a proxy for.
verb:  (networking) To function as a server for a client device, but pass on the requests to another server for service.
noun:  (video games slang) Short for proximity mine. [(weaponry) A mine with a proximity fuse.]

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