Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In Rhode Island, a list of candidates for election; a ticket or ballot containing such a list.
  • noun An abbreviation of proximo.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun Rhode Island “The ticket or list of candidates at elections, presented to the people for their votes.”

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  • noun US, Rhode Island The ticket or list of candidates at elections, presented to the people for their votes.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective in or of the next month after the present

Etymologies

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Examples

  • A high-dud barrage or two or three perhaps, over a year, might indicate bad quality control in the shells themselves; but when every flight of low-elevation "prox" shells over a certain point either exploded on contact or not at all, the revered law was being broken.

    More Than Human Sturgeon, Theodore, 1918-1985 1953

  • Your idea of shell wrappers around the commands that need the proxy is a good enhancement to this … that way "prox" could be automatically invoked right before it's needed …

    Recent Comments Anonymous Coward 2010

  • As a result, the proxy environment variables are set correctly any time I open a terminal window, and I can update it at any time (after changing locations) by typing "prox".

    Recent Comments Anonymous Coward 2010

  • My earlier research into BLS stats indicated that prox 40% of jobs were blue collar hourly.

    Teacher, teach thyself economics, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

  • To designate target you will *garbled* be inside the Reaper operating time gate, in close prox. to the Reaper and must keep target LAS *garbled* ten seconds.

    Day by Day Armageddon: Beyond Exile J.L. Bourne 2010

  • To designate target you will *garbled* be inside the Reaper operating time gate, in close prox. to the Reaper and must keep target LAS *garbled* ten seconds.

    Day by Day Armageddon: Beyond Exile J.L. Bourne 2010

  • All they really have to go off of is swiping the prox (ph) card which is recorded in a computer system, and also talking to the other people in the building saw her on Tuesday morning.

    CNN Transcript Sep 14, 2009 2009

  • My first job as a longshoreman in 1939 paid $0.96 per hour and now pays prox $ 27.

    Economic Debate, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

  • There are many areas in Mexico prettier than Ensenada, but don't have the good weather or the close prox. to US that I need.

    Electric blanket or Down Filled Comforter 2006

  • Even if you had like a proximity -- a prox card to open the door, somebody walk behind you.

    CNN Transcript Feb 15, 2008 2008

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