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say it: PRAHK-see
proxy is a noun meaning "a person authorized to act for another". It is pronounced /ˈpɹɑksi/ — PRAHK-see. It carries 2 recorded senses.
a person authorized to act for another
a power of attorney document given by shareholders of a corporation authorizing a specific vote on their behalf at a corporate meeting
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for proxy come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.