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
- The surrogate family then raise the chicks.
- The child becomes the parent's surrogate spouse.
- He served as clerk of the surrogate court in 1863.
- The embryos were then transferred to the surrogate dogs.
- The composition of surrogate alcohols consumed in Russia.
- A surrogate mother may be the genetic mother of the child.
- A surrogate mother may be the genetic mother of the child or not.
- In 1810, he was named judge in the district and surrogate courts.
- Instead, the Newborn sees the Ripley clone as a surrogate parent.
- Is the chambered pomegranate also a surrogate for the poppy's narcotic capsule