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

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