Proxy

Part of speech: noun (n.)

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. Burke.

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. Blackstone.

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. Burrill.

5. See Procuration. [Obs.]

Part of speech: verb (v.)

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