Definitions

proxy

[prok-see] / ˈprɒk si /

NOUN

agent

Synonyms

STRONGEST

intermediary stand-in surrogate

STRONG

alternate ambassador assignee attorney backup broker delegate deputy emissary envoy executor lawyer negotiator representative substitute

WEAK

mediary

Example Sentences

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Appeared in the May 19, 2026, print edition as 'The Proxy Advisers Strike Back'.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 18, 2026

Proxy adviser Glass Lewis said it recommended voting for the resolution, which it said “could provide decision-useful information for shareholders.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 9, 2026

Proxy military groups stayed out of the June 2025 war, apparently with Tehran’s assent.

From Barron's • Feb. 28, 2026

To investigate the problem, the team adapted a climate modeling framework known as Proxy System Modeling.

From Science Daily • Feb. 6, 2026

The Electoral Prince of Hanover married her at Hanover by Proxy, in presence of the Count de Finck the King's Ambassador.

From The Memoirs of Charles-Lewis, Baron de Pollnitz, Volume III Being the Observations He Made in His Late Travels from Prussia thro' Germany, Italy, France, Flanders, Holland, England, &C. in Letters to His Friend. Discovering Not Only the Present State of the Chief Cities and Towns; but the Characters of the Principal Persons at the Several Courts. by P?llnitz, Karl Ludwig von

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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I've Been to the Mountaintop" (1968)

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