procuration
English edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
procuration (countable and uncountable, plural procurations)
- The act of procuring; procurement.
- The management of another's affairs.
- The instrument by which a person is empowered to transact the affairs of another; a proxy.
- A sum of money formerly paid to the bishop or archdeacon, now to the ecclesiastical commissioners, by an incumbent, as a commutation for entertainment at the time of visitation; called also proxy.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “procuration”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
French edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Latin prōcūrātiōnem.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
procuration f (plural procurations)
Further reading edit
- “procuration”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.