Proxy /(?)/

pl. Proxies

1. The agency for another who acts through the agent; authority to act for another, esp. to vote in a legislative or corporate capacity.

   I have no man's proxy: I speak only for myself.

2. The person who is substituted or deputed to act or vote for another.

   Every peer . . . may make another lord of parliament his proxy, to vote for him in his absence.

3. A writing by which one person authorizes another to vote in his stead, as in a corporation meeting.
4. The written appointment of a proctor in suits in the ecclesiastical courts. (Eng. Law)
5. See Procuration. (Eccl.) [Obs.]

1. To act or vote by proxy; to do anything by the agency of another. [R.]