Proxy

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A proxy is an agent or substitute authorized to act for another person or a document which authorizes the agent so to act, and may also be used in the following contexts:

• Proxy abuse (or vicarious abuse), abuse committed on behalf of somebody else
• Proxy bullying (or vicarious bullying), bullying committed on behalf of somebody else
• Proxy card, a substitute card used in trading card games when a player does not own the substituted card and also can occur when proxy cards are not tradeable
• Proxy fight, attempting to influence how company shareholders use their proxy votes
• Proxy marriage, common amongst European monarchs, where one party is not present in person to their marriage to the other
• Proxy murder, a murder committed on behalf of somebody else
• Proxy statement, information published related to a U.S. stockholders' meeting
• Proxy voting, a vote cast on behalf of an absent person
• Proxy war, a war where two powers use third parties as a substitute for fighting each other directly
• Health care proxy, a document used to specify an agent to make medical decisions for a patient in case they are incapacitated
• Torture by proxy, torturing someone on somebody else's behalf

Technical terms

• Proxy (statistics), a measured variable used to infer the value of a variable of interest
• Proxy (climate), a measured variable used to infer the value of a variable of interest in climate research
• Proxy pattern, a software design pattern in computer programming, also known as a proxy class
• Proxy server, a computer network service that allows clients to make indirect network connections to other network services

Music

• Proxies (band), British electronic rock band formed in 2010
• "Proxy" (song), a song by Martin Garrix

Entertainment

• Proxy, a mysterious humanoid lifeform in the anime Ergo Proxy
• PROXY, a holodroid featured in Star Wars: The Force Unleashed
• Proxy, the codename of Wendy Harris, a fictional character in the Batgirl comic book series.
• "The Proxy", a song by RJD2 on his 2003 album Deadringer
• Proxy (film), a 2013 horror film by Zack Parker
• "Proxy" the name of a fictional character in the 2012 horror film Smiley.
• "Proxy" is a term, specifically (but not limited to) in Slender: The Arrival, for a person who is influenced or controlled by the Slender Man.

See also

• Münchausen syndrome by proxy
• Proxi, a proprietary freeware computer application for Mac OS X by Griffin Technology
• Vicarious (disambiguation)