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Definitions for Surrogate
[1] a person appointed to act for another; deputy.
[2] (in some states) a judicial officer having jurisdiction over the probate of wills, the administration of estates, etc.
[3] the deputy of an ecclesiastical judge, especially of a bishop or a bishop's chancellor.
[4] a substitute.
[5] a surrogate mother.
[6] Politics . someone who acts on behalf of a politician or political candidate by making public appearances, issuing statements, etc., when that person is engaged elsewhere or when that person’s image would be bolstered by certain affiliations: His camp won the “prestige of science” battle by signing on high-profile physicists, chemists, and biologists as campaign surrogates.
[7] regarded or acting as a surrogate: a surrogate father.
[8] involving or indicating the use of a surrogate mother to conceive or carry an embryo: surrogate parenting.
[9] to put into the place of another as a successor, substitute, or deputy; substitute for another.
[10] to subrogate.
[11] a person or thing acting as a substitute
[12] mainly British a deputy, such as a clergyman appointed to deputize for a bishop in granting marriage licences
[13] psychiatry a person who is a substitute for someone else, esp in childhood when different persons, such as a brother or teacher, can act as substitutes for the parents
[14] (in some US states) a judge with jurisdiction over the probate of wills, etc
[15] (modifier) of, relating to, or acting as a surrogate a surrogate pleasure
[16] to put in another's position as a deputy, substitute, etc
[17] to appoint as a successor to oneself
Words related to Surrogate
proxy, stand-in, refuge, stopgap, delegate, sub, deputy, expediency, alternate, recourse, makeshift, resort, representative, expedient, resource, backup, fill-in, replacement
Words nearby Surrogate
surrender, surrender value, surreptitious, surrey, surrogacy, surrogate, surrogate mother, surround, surround sound, surround theater, surrounding
Origin of Surrogate
1525–35; < Latin surrogātus, assimilated variant of subrogātus; see subrogate
Other words from Surrogate
sur·ro·gate·ship , noun
sur·ro·ga·tion , noun
Word origin for Surrogate
C17: from Latin surrogāre to substitute; see subrogate
Synonyms for Surrogate
proxy, stand-in, alternate, backup, delegate, deputy, expediency, expedient, fill-in, makeshift, recourse, refuge, replacement, representative, resort, resource, stopgap, sub, pinch hitter, substitute agent