Noun: proxy
| Singular | proxy |
| Plural | proxies |
Sample Sentences
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Every peer […] may make another lord of parliament his proxy, to vote for him in his absence. [1765–1769, William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England, (please specify |book=I to IV), Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] Clarendon Press, →OCLC:]
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I have no man's proxy: I speak only for myself. [1790 November, Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France, and on the Proceedings in Certain Societies in London Relative to that Event. […], London: […] J[ames] Dodsley, […], →OCLC:]
Nouns inflected like proxy
clitoridectomy,
royal jelly,
whoopsy,
surrogacy,
urinary,
rastrography,
renoscopy,
sourtop blueberry,
forcible entry,
superficiary,
lipidosity,
potability,
phonography,
hyperproperty,
greenery,
conjugality,
ring singularity,
Brittany,
ignobility,
obscurity, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English procucie, contraction of procuracie, from Anglo-Norman procuracie, from Medieval Latin procuratia, from Latin prōcūrātiō, from Latin prōcūrō (“to manage, administer”) (English procure). Compare proctor. See: Middle English Nouns '
procucie', Middle English Nouns '
procucie', Latin Nouns '
prōcūrātiō', Latin Nouns '
prōcūrō'.
Verbs referencing "proxy"
English Nouns
proxenos.