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Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

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noun a person authorized to act for another
noun a symbol in a logical or mathematical expression that can be replaced by the name of any member of specified set

From place + holder.

By these measures, the weak-minded were terrified out of subscriptions for anti-social objects; and the selfish crew having gathered around them the chief priests, and the pharisees, and some of the fattest amongst the placeholders, pensioners, and tax-eaters, who exist upon the people's labour, they fitted up an office at Walker's Hotel, No. — Pamphlets and Parodies on Political Subjects, William Hone

proxy, procurator

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