0 authority given to a person to act for someone else, such as by voting for them in an election, or the person who this authority is given to:
1 authority given to someone to act for you, as by voting as your representative in an election, or the person to whom this authority is given
2 a written document that officially gives someone the authority to do something for another person, for example by voting at a meeting for them:
3 a person who you choose to do something officially for you, for example to vote at a meeting or in an election when you are not able to vote yourself:
Your proxy does not necessarily have to sign the form himself or herself.
Any patron with a registered ballot book may participate in the minimum-bid auction in person Saturday, or via proxy.
4 if you do something by proxy, you officially ask someone else to do it for you:
5 a situation, process, or activity to which another situation, etc. is compared, especially in order to calculate how successful or unsuccessful it is:
One problem with his conclusions derives from his use of the surviving records of convictions for indictable offences as a proxy for all crime.
Both are proxies for labor market possibilities and opportunity costs of time specific to an individual.
To see this point, recall that such space-time domains are proxies for unknown structural conditions.
Indeed, in econometric analysis, space-time markers are often used as proxies for these unknown, sometimes unobservable, conditions.
A research assistant arranged to interview control subjects who also provided the names of potential proxy respondents.
And yet, this is exactly what is implied by government rules and regulations that would require pension funds and related institutions to vote their proxies.
Traditional proxy criteria, drawn from clinical ethics, are available to them.
Together these findings point to attitudes, our proxy for identity, and behaviour having significant feedback effects on each other.
