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Proxy may refer to:

• 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 tradable
• 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 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

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

Proxy may also refer to:

• Proxy (band), British band formed in 2004
• Proxies (band), British electronic rock band formed in 2010
• 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 statement, information published related to a U.S. stockholders' meeting

See also[link]

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

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