0 in a vicarious way (= experienced through the activities of other people, rather than by doing something yourself): --
An employer could be vicariously liable for acts of harassment committed by employees.
The owner of a motor vehicle is vicariously responsible for injuries even though he is not driving the car.
People like to vicariously experience that kind of danger.
Some parents seem to live vicariously through their children.
We are able to enjoy their fame vicariously but are asked to sympathise in a way that makes us feel comforted not to share in fame's limiting aspects.
Much human behaviour probably begins as trial and error behaviour, or as vicariously learned behaviour from social situations, under the control of social discriminative stimuli, and socially reinforced.
But in the historical performance practice movement, scholarship has vicariously taken this role in pursuing and uncovering an 'authenticity' that has been corrupted by changing performing traditions.
Usually, an organization can be held vicariously liable for the negligence of an employee or an agent over whom it has the ability to exercise some authority or control.
Many medications cause mineral depletion directly or vicariously.
To travel the world vicariously and safely, and to satisfy a thirst for discovery; these aspirations became steadily more widespread as the years passed.
Empathy can be defined as an other-oriented matching emotion that results from vicariously observing another's distress.
A closely related principle is that constitutional rights are personal and may not be asserted vicariously.
