proxy (n.)
- advocate
- agency
- agent
- alternate
- alternative
- analogy
- assignee
- assignment
- attorney
- authority
- authorization
- aye
- backup
- ballot
- brevet
- canvass
- canvassing
- care
- champion
- change
- changeling
- charge
- commission
- commissioning
- commitment
- comparison
- consignment
- copy
- counterfeit
- cure
- delegate
- delegation
- deputation
- deputy
- devolution
- devolvement
- division
- double
- dummy
- elector
- embassy
- empowerment
- enfranchisement
- equal
- equivalent
- errand
- ersatz
- exchange
- exponent
- factor
- fake
- figurehead
- fill-in
- floater
- franchise
- ghost
- ghostwriter
- imitation
- jurisdiction
- legation
- license
- lieutenancy
- lieutenant
- locum
- makeshift
- mandate
- metaphor
- metonymy
- mission
- mock
- nay
- no
- office
- personnel
- phony
- pinch
- pleader
- plebiscite
- poll
- procurator
- purview
- referendum
- regency
- relief
- repeater
- replacement
- representation
- representative
- reserve
- reserves
- responsibility
- ringer
- say
- secondary
- sign
- slate
- spare
- stand-in
- stopgap
- sub
- substitute
- substitution
- succedaneum
- suffrage
- supplanter
- surrogate
- symbol
- synecdoche
- task
- temporary
- ticket
- token
- trust
- trusteeship
- understudy
- utility
- vicar
- vice
- vice-regent
- vicegerent
- voice
- vote
- voter
- voting
- warrant
- write-in
- yea
- yes