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SURROGATE
foster, surrogate
(adjective) providing or receiving nurture or parental care though not related by blood or legal ties; “foster parent”; “foster child”; “foster home”; “surrogate father”
deputy, surrogate
(noun) a person appointed to represent or act on behalf of others
surrogate, alternate, replacement
(noun) someone who takes the place of another person
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
surrogate (plural surrogates)
A substitute (usually of a person, position or role).
Synonym: Thesaurus:substitute
A person or animal that acts as a substitute for the social or pastoral role of another, such as a surrogate mother.
(chiefly, British) 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 interstate 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.
Adjective
surrogate (comparative more surrogate, superlative most surrogate)
Of, concerning, relating to or acting as a substitute.
Verb
surrogate (third-person singular simple present surrogates, present participle surrogating, simple past and past participle surrogated)
(transitive) To replace or substitute something with something else; appoint a successor.
Synonyms: deputize, foster, replace, subrogate, substitute
Anagrams
• outragers
Source: Wiktionary
Sur"ro*gate, n. Etym: [L. surrogatus, p.p. of surrogare, subrogare, to put in another's place, to substitute; sub under + rogare to ask, ask for a vote, propose a law. See Rogation, and cf. Subrogate.]
1. A deputy; a delegate; a substitute.
2. The deputy of an ecclesiastical judge, most commonly of a bishop or his chancellor, especially a deputy who grants marriage licenses. [Eng.]
3. In some States of the United States, an officer who presides over the probate of wills and testaments and yield the settlement of estates.
Sur"ro*gate, v. t.
Definition: To put in the place of another; to substitute. [R.] Dr. H. More.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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