surrogate
IPA: sˈɝʌgʌt
noun
- A substitute (usually of a person, position or role).
- A person or animal that acts as a substitute for the social or pastoral role of another, such as a surrogate parent.
- (chiefly Britain) A deputy for a bishop in granting licences for marriage.
- (US, politics) A politician or person of influence campaigning for a presidential candidate.
- (US law) A judicial officer of limited jurisdiction, who administers matters of probate and intestate succession and, in some cases, adoptions.
- (computing) Any of a range of Unicode codepoints which are used in pairs in UTF-16 to represent characters beyond the Basic Multilingual Plane.
- (economics) An ersatz good.
- (databases) Ellipsis of surrogate key. [(databases) A unique identifier for an entity or object, not derived from application data.]
verb
- (transitive) To replace or substitute something with something else; to appoint a successor.
adjective
- Of, concerning, relating to or acting as a substitute.
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Examples of "surrogate" in Sentences
- In fact, given the way her surrogate is hijacked, one of them spends significant time in the film being literally controlled by men.
- Any evidence on health benefits is limited to improvements in surrogate measures and risk factors or to “soft” outcomes like quality of life.
- A surrogate is a remotely controlled android, that's the personification of vanity, and acts as both a reflection of the user's ego and aspirations.
- Her husband, Peter, has decided that he'd like to have a baby, and the family's first choice for a surrogate is none other than Cannie's flamboyant kid sister.
- Waldby says it costs the western couples around $15,000 or $20,000 for an Indian surrogate, whereas they would pay around $100,000 for a surrogate from the US.
- Surely, inflation will continue in this future, and a surrogate is an infinitely more complex piece of technology than is, say, an iPod, iPhone, or the best available laptop.
- After Greer's surrogate is destroyed and he gets his first taste of real life in years, he realizes just how detached people are from the world around them, most notably his wife.
- Although she touts her work as a McCain surrogate during his presidential run, she was sidelined by his advisors after repeated gaffes that presaged ones she has made in this campaign.
- Frank Keating, the former governor of Oklahoma and a McCain surrogate went on television this week and played the race card, saying Obama should own up to the fact that he was once a "guy of the street" who used cocaine.
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