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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
surrogate
I.adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
surrogate mother
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
father
▪ His surrogate father figure was killed.
▪ They merely suffered from unresolved Oedipal complexes, and were attacking universities as a surrogate father.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ The old couple across the street were like surrogate grandparents to me.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Both his sense of need and his surrogate conscience link him however tenuously, with a social universe.
▪ Girls are fascinated by people and treat their toys as surrogate people.
▪ His dancers were his family, surrogate children whom he fed, educated and drove mercilessly as artists.
▪ Regional governments have started to issue their own kinds of surrogate money.
▪ They merely suffered from unresolved Oedipal complexes, and were attacking universities as a surrogate father.
▪ We became a surrogate mirror reflecting back our approval.
II.noun
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ The President's surrogates have been campaigning for him nonstop.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ As Dole and Kemp headed across the country, the team of surrogates was making its maiden voyage in California.
▪ But I have to resist trying to make them surrogates of me.
▪ Civilization itself, in fact, is a pathological surrogate for unconscious infantile disappointments.
▪ Deaver also appeared to act as a messenger between the First lady and her husband, and sometimes even as a surrogate.
▪ Then, one night when his white surrogate left the studio, Winslow read part of his own Script on the air.
▪ This special class acted as their surrogates for over 400 years.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Surrogate

Surrogate \Sur"ro*gate\, v. t. To put in the place of another; to substitute. [R.]
--Dr. H. More.

Surrogate

Surrogate \Sur"ro*gate\, n. [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.

  4. a surrogate mother.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
surrogate

early 15c., from Latin surrogatus, past participle of surrogare/subrogare "put in another's place, substitute," from assimilated form of sub "in the place of, under" (see sub-) + rogare "to ask, propose" (see rogation). Meaning "woman pregnant with the fertilized egg of another woman" is attested from 1978 (from 1972 of animals; surrogate mother in a psychological sense is from 1971). As an adjective from 1630s.

Wiktionary
surrogate
  1. Of, concerning, relating to or acting as a substitute. n. 1 A substitute (usually of a person, position or role). 2 A person or animal that acts as a substitute for the social or pastoral role of another, such as a surrogate mother. 3 (context chiefly British English) A deputy for a bishop in granting licences for marriage. 4 (context US legal English): A judicial officer of limited jurisdiction, who administers matters of probate and intestate succession and, in some cases, adoptions. 5 A ''surrogate'' or ''surrogate key'' is a unique identifier for either an entity in the modeled world or an object in the database. 6 (context computing English) Any of a range of Unicode codepoints which are used in pairs in UTF-16 to represent characters beyond the Basic Multilingual Plane. v

  2. (context transitive English) To replace or substitute something with something else; appoint a successor.

WordNet
surrogate

adj. providing or receiving nurture or parental care though not related by blood or legal ties; "foster parent"; "foster child"; "foster home"; "surrogate father" [syn: foster]

surrogate
  1. n. someone who takes the place of another person [syn: alternate, replacement]

  2. a person appointed to represent or act on behalf of others [syn: deputy]

Wikipedia
Surrogate (clergy)

Surrogate (from Lat. surrogare, to substitute for), a deputy of a bishop or an ecclesiastical judge, acting in the absence of his principal and strictly bound by the authority of the latter.

Canon 128 of the canons of 1603 lays down the qualifications necessary for the office of surrogate and canon 123 the regulations for the appointment to the office. At present the chief duty of a surrogate in England is the granting of marriage licences, but judgments of the arches court of Canterbury have been delivered by a surrogate in the absence of the official principal.

Surrogate

A surrogate is a substitute or deputy for another person in a specific role and may refer to:

Usage examples of "surrogate".

Over the years the chief Sorceress had seen a great many of her surrogate daughters march off to their deaths, martyring themselves in order to score important victories against the horrific cymeks.

What surrogate mothers and anti-abortionists and the fetal rights issue had failed to do in uniting women, the prospect of not having to menstruate did.

I have promised her a lusty springald with an iron yard as my surrogate, an she will keep tacit about my limitations.

Ishamael had died mad, true, but even when he was still sane, back when it seemed they surely would drive Lews Therin Telamon to defeat, he claimed this struggle had gone on since the Creation, an endless war between the Great Lord and the Creator using human surrogates.

The responsibility of being Adar was overwhelming enough, but becoming the surrogate Prime Designate as well seemed too much.

To my Cherkess students, it seems, I stand in loco frateri as a surrogate elder.

We have sent into the Net these surrogate messengers to seek out those whose lives, courtesy, works of charity, and creditworthiness indicate they may once have been masters of enlightenment.

State Department are really just paid to be implementors of what the surrogate leaders in the Legislative branch have decided you should implement.

Her consciousness drowned equally with his in the passionate fulfilment -- Ty was not unmindful of motivation in his surrogates -- but meanwhile her three tongues, as well as inner and outer skin, returned a great deal of data to the knowledge collectors in the Ty-Laurie overmind.

By the same token, the surrogates need counsel in order to do their types of jobs to the best of their abilities.

The administration should understand that any time it attempts to intervene directly or indirectly through surrogates it creates disincentives for the creation of a balance of power.

Rhys Michael had declined to cooperate, the great lords had decided very early that it was sufficient for their purposes merely to keep the king alive until some willing surrogate ensured that the queen did, indeed, bear offspring that would be taken for Haldane.

Instead, the same principle of correspondence that caused emerged Ents to remember their past experiences in Exoversemeaningful terms would cause the surrogates to perceive their experiences in terms that were familiar.

Ecsvan had suggested that maybe they could create a purpose-devised organism that would be an ideal vehicle for Ents wishing to transfer to the Exoversein effect, what VISAR had improvised in the form of its Ent-being surrogates, but working the other way around.

Surrogate warning him to avoid war unless the intruders displayed ill intentions.