Proxy may refer to:

Arts, entertainment and media

Fictional entities

* Proxy, a mysterious humanoid lifeform in the anime ''

Ergo Proxy ''Ergo Proxy'' is a Japanese cyberpunk anime television series, produced by Manglobe, directed by Shūkō Murase and written by Dai Satō. The series ran for 23 episodes from February to August 2006 on the Wowow satellite television, satellit ...

'' * PROXY, a holodroid featured in '' Star Wars: The Force Unleashed'' * Proxy, the codename of Wendy Harris, a fictional character in the ''Batgirl'' comic book series * "Proxy", the name of a fictional character in the 2012 horror film ''

Smiley A smiley, sometimes called a smiley face, is a basic ideogram representing a Smile, smiling face. Since the 1950s, it has become part of popular culture worldwide, used either as a standalone ideogram or as a form of communication, such as em ...

'' * "Proxy", a term, specifically (but not limited to) in '' Slender: The Arrival'', for a person who is influenced or controlled by the Slender Man * Proxy, playable main protagonist in

Zenless Zone Zero ''Zenless Zone Zero'' is a free-to-play action role-playing game developed and published by miHoYo (with publishing outside mainland China under HoYoverse, Cognosphere, d/b/a ''HoYoverse''). The game was released on Windows, iOS, Android (oper ...

Music

* Proxies (band), British electronic rock band formed in 2010 * "Proxy" (song), a 2014 song by Martin Garrix * "The Proxy", a song by RJD2 on his 2002 album '' Deadringer''

Other uses in arts, entertainment and media

* ''Proxy'' (film), a 2013 horror film directed by Zack Parker * ''Proxies'' (film), a 1921 silent drama film directed by George D. Baker * ''The Proxy'', a drama web series starring Stuart Ashen * 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 tradeable * Proxy (novel), a 2013 young adult novel by Alex London

Computing and technology

* 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

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agent (law) The law of agency is an area of commercial law dealing with a set of contractual, quasi-contractual and non-contractual fiduciary relationships that involve a person, called the agent, who is authorized to act on behalf of another (called the pri ...

, a substitute authorized to act for another entity or a document which authorizes the agent so to act *

Proxy (climate) In the study of past climates ("paleoclimatology"), climate proxies are preserved physical characteristics of the past that stand in for direct meteorological measurements and enable scientists to reconstruct the climatic conditions over a longe ...

, a measured variable used to infer the value of a variable of interest in climate research *

Proxy (statistics) In statistics, a proxy or proxy variable is a variable that is not in itself directly relevant, but that serves in place of an unobservable or immeasurable variable. In order for a variable to be a good proxy, it must have a close correlation, not ...

, a measured variable used to infer the value of a variable of interest *

Healthcare proxy In the field of medicine, a healthcare proxy (commonly referred to as HCP) is a document (legal instrument) with which a patient (primary individual) appoints an agent to legally make healthcare decisions on behalf of the patient, when the patient ...

, a document used to specify an agent to make medical decisions for a patient in case they are incapacitated *

Proxy fight A proxy fight, proxy contest or proxy battle is an unfriendly contest for control over an organization. The event usually occurs when a corporation's stockholders develop opposition to some aspect of the corporate governance, often focusing on dir ...

, attempting to influence how company shareholders use their proxy votes *

Proxy marriage A proxy wedding or proxy marriage is a wedding in which one or both of the individuals being united are not physically present, usually being represented instead by other persons (proxies). If both partners are absent, this is known as a double pro ...

, common amongst European monarchs, where one party is not present in person to their marriage to the other *

Proxy murder A proxy murder is a murder that is committed indirectly, most likely by one person ordering another person, or through the use of a third party. Hit men A common example of a proxy murder would be a person contracting a hit man, or a hired kill ...

, a murder committed on behalf of somebody else *

Proxy statement A proxy statement is a statement provided by a firm soliciting shareholder votes. The statement includes voting procedure and information, background information about the company's nominated directors, board compensation, executive compensation ...

, information published related to a U.S. stockholders' meeting *

Proxy voting Proxy voting is a form of voting whereby a member of a decision-making body may delegate their voting power to a representative, to enable a vote in absence. The representative may be another member of the same body, or external. A person so ...

, a vote cast on behalf of an absent person *

Proxy war In political science, a proxy war is an armed conflict where at least one of the belligerents is directed or supported by an external third-party power. In the term ''proxy war'', a belligerent with external support is the ''proxy''; both bel ...

, a war where two powers use third parties as a substitute for fighting each other directly *

ProxyAddress ProxyAddress Ltd is a social enterprise service which enables the use of an alias address to be used for the purposes of connecting those facing homelessness with support, independent of location. ProxyAddress involves the use of a secure databas ...