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someone or something you send in to do your standing-in-line for you.
means an authorized stand-in that acts, votes, or connects on behalf of someone else, so the real thing doesn't have to show up.
from from latin procurare, to take care of — via medieval procuracy, the legal right to act for another; shortened over centuries into the word for the substitute itself.
internet meaninga server relaying your traffic, hiding your real address
corporate votingshareholders skip meetings, proxies vote their shares instead
climate sciencetree rings and ice cores serve as proxies
war terminologyproxy wars let powers fight without fighting directly