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What does vicarious mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word vicarious? Here's what it means.

Adjective
  1. Experienced or gained by the loss or to the consequence of another person, rather than through first-hand experience, such as through watching or reading.
  2. Done on behalf of others
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But you can give your mates a good time they could not possibly have had before, and that gives you vicarious pleasure.
At the same time, a number of authors suggest that vulnerability to vicarious traumatization arises through that very experience of awareness.
This is perhaps because they give a kind of vicarious satisfaction to the pugnacity inherent in all of us.
The municipality is pursued for its vicarious liability for the negligence of its employee.
The action was brought against the referee, for whom the Union accepted vicarious liability.
The uninhibited pleasure the various characters take in eating only adds to the reader's vicarious pleasure.

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