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Proxy may refer to:

Arts, entertainment and media

Computing and technology

• ProxyAddress, a service providing postal addresses for homeless people
• 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

Other uses

• Proxy or agent (law), a substitute authorized to act for another entity or a document which authorizes the agent so to act
• Proxy (climate), a measured variable used to infer the value of a variable of interest in climate research
• Proxy (statistics), a measured variable used to infer the value of a variable of interest
• Healthcare proxy, a document used to specify an agent to make medical decisions for a patient in case they are incapacitated
• Proxy bullying (or vicarious bullying), bullying committed on behalf of somebody else
• 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 statement, information published related to a U.S. stockholders' meeting
• 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
• Torture by proxy, torturing someone on somebody else's behalf

See also

• Münchausen syndrome by proxy
• Proxi, a computer application
• Vicarious (disambiguation)