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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

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