Meaning

2 senses
  1. To serve as a proxy for.

  2. To function as a server for a client device, but pass on the requests to another server for service.

Examples

10 sentences
  1. Do you have a healthcare proxy?

  2. They used a proxy to contact us.

  3. I proxied for her at the meeting.

  4. Are you authorized to act as her proxy?

    deSind sie bevollmächtigt, sie zu vertreten? — Yorwba

  5. She acts as a proxy for her husband.

    deSie handelt stellvertretend für ihren Ehemann. — Yorwba

Origin

Inherited from Middle English procucie, contraction of procuracie, from Anglo-Norman procu

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.

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Forms

proxies, proxying, proxied, proxied
Base formproxy · to proxy
3rd person singularproxies
Present participleproxying
Past simpleproxied
Past participleproxied

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theyproxy
he, she, itproxies

Past simpleLesson

all personsproxied

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave proxied
he, she, ithas proxied

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill proxy

See also

neighbours in the dictionary

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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