How to pronounce“proxy”in English
nounthat the person right next to me is working on. Our solution to this was to introduce a rough heuristic that I call pseudo-productivity that said we can use visible activity as a crude
proxy for useful effort. So if I see you doing things, that's better than you not doing things.
Come to an office and we watch you work. If we need to be more productive, come earlier, stay later. We'll just use activity as our best marker that you're probably doing something
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Definitions of “proxy”
Used as a proxy or acting as a proxy.
“a proxy indicator”
An agent or substitute authorized to act for another person.
“Every peer […] may make another lord of parliament his proxy, to vote for him in his absence.”
The authority to act for another, especially when written.
“I have no man's proxy: I speak only for myself.”
To serve as a proxy for.
“In many of the studies we reviewed, it is common practice to use an observed variable to proxy for a relevant variable that could not be observed.”
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