surrogate
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Latin surrogātus, perfect passive participle of surrogō (“ask”); a variant of subrogō, from sub (“under”) + rogō (“ask”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective and noun:
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈsʌɹəɡɪt/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - (General American) IPA(key): /ˈsɝəɡɪt/
Verb:
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈsʌɹəɡeɪt/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - (General American) IPA(key): /ˈsɝəɡeɪt/
Noun
[edit]surrogate (plural surrogates)
- A substitute (usually of a person, position or role).
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:substitute
- A mixture of horseradish and mustard often serves as a surrogate for wasabi.
- A person or animal that acts as a substitute for the social or pastoral role of another, such as a surrogate parent.
- (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 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.
Hyponyms
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Derived terms
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[edit]Descendants
[edit]- → Dutch: surrogaat
Translations
[edit]substitute
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person or animal that acts as a substitute for another
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deputy for a bishop
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US: judicial officer of limited jurisdiction
surrogate key
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Adjective
[edit]surrogate (comparative more surrogate, superlative most surrogate)
- Of, concerning, relating to or acting as a substitute.
Translations
[edit]Of, concerning, relating to or acting as a substitute
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Verb
[edit]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; to appoint a successor.
- Synonyms: deputize, foster, replace, subrogate, substitute
Related terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]to replace or substitute something with something else
to appoint a successor
See also
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[edit]Italian
[edit]Adjective
[edit]surrogate f
Latin
[edit]Verb
[edit]surrogāte
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