PROXY Synonyms

• standing for something else

• a person who represents others

• an advocate who represents someone else's policy or purpose

• a member of the United States House of Representatives

• an item of information that is typical of a class or group

• serving to represent or typify

• being or characteristic of government by representation in which citizens exercise power through elected officers and representatives

• a person or thing that takes or can take the place of another

• an athlete who plays only when a starter on the team is replaced

• someone who takes the place of another (as when things get dangerous or difficult)

• capable of substituting in any of several positions on a team

• serving or used in place of another

• artificial and inferior

• put in the place of another; switch seemingly equivalent items

• be a substitute

• act as a substitute

• an active and efficient cause; capable of producing a certain effect

• a representative who acts on behalf of other persons or organizations

• a substance that exerts some force or effect

• a businessman who buys or sells for another in exchange for a commission

• any agent or representative of a federal agency or bureau

• the semantic role of the animate entity that instigates or causes the happening denoted by the verb in the clause

• a diplomat of the highest rank; accredited as representative from one country to another

• an informal representative

• a negotiator who acts as a link between parties

• a negotiator who acts as a link between parties

• someone who buys large quantities of goods and resells to merchants rather than to the ultimate customers

• the performer in the middle of a minstrel line who engages the others in talk

• a person who is in a position to give you special assistance

• someone who takes the place of another (as when things get dangerous or difficult)

• someone who takes the place of another person

• a person appointed to represent or act on behalf of others

• providing or receiving nurture or parental care though not related by blood or legal ties

• a person authorized to act for another

• a symbol in a logical or mathematical expression that can be replaced by the name of any member of specified set

• a person authorized to act for another

• (ancient Rome) someone employed by the Roman Emperor to manage finance and taxes