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Definition of Surrogate

1. Adjective. Providing or receiving nurture or parental care though not related by blood or legal ties. "Surrogate father"

2. Noun. Someone who takes the place of another person.

3. Noun. A person appointed to represent or act on behalf of others.

Definition of Surrogate

1. n. A deputy; a delegate; a substitute.

2. v. t. To put in the place of another; to substitute.

Definition of Surrogate

1. Noun. A substitute (usually of a person, position or role). ¹

2. Noun. A person or animal that acts as a substitute for the social or pastoral role of another, such as a surrogate mother. ¹

3. Noun. (chiefly British) A deputy for a bishop in granting licences for marriage. ¹

4. Noun. (US legal): A judicial officer of limited jurisdiction, who administers matters of probate and intestate succession and, in some cases, adoptions. ¹

5. Noun. A ''surrogate'' or ''surrogate key'' is a unique identifier for either an entity in the modeled world or an object in the database. ¹

6. Noun. (computing) Any of a range of Unicode codepoints which are used in pairs in UTF-16 to represent characters beyond the Basic Multilingual Plane. ¹

7. Adjective. Of, concerning, relating to or acting as a substitute. ¹

8. Verb. (transitive) To replace or substitute something with something else; appoint a successor. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Surrogate

1. [v -GATED, -GATING, -GATES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Surrogate

surrendries surrendring surrendry surreplies surreply surreption surreptions surreptitious surreptitiously surreptitiousness

surreys surrogacies surrogacy surrogata surrogate (current term) surrogate father surrogate fathers surrogate key surrogate keys surrogate mother

surrogate mothers surrogate parent surrogate parents surrogated surrogates surrogateship surrogateships surrogating surrogation

Literary usage of Surrogate

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Forms of Pleading in Actions for Legal Or Equitable Relief: Prepared with by Austin Abbott, Carlos Coolidge Alden (1898)
"That on or about the day of ,18 , said will was duly admitted to probate by the surrogate of the county of ,l in which said county the said MN resided at ..."

2. The Transfer Tax Law of the State of New York: Being Sections 220 to 245 by George Washington McElroy (1909)
"Determination of surrogate. [§ 231, Tax Law.] From such report of appraisal and other proof relating to any such estate before the surrogate, the surrogate ..."

3. A Treatise on the Practice of the Court of Chancery: With an Appendix of by Oliver Lorenzo Barbour (1843)
"(/) Certifying determination to surrogate.] The circuit judge having made his decision upon the appeal, must, whether it be an affirmance of the sentence or ..."

4. The Constitutional History of New York: From the Beginning of the Colonial by Charles Zebina Lincoln (1906)
"The surrogate's court existed in that county long prior to the Constitution ... Townsend (1886) 102 NY 430, 7 NE 360, that a surrogate elected in case of a ..."

5. The Code of Civil Procedure of the State of New York by New York (State). (1907)
"Jurisdiction of the court, and authority of the surrogate. 2. General duties and disabilities of the surrogate, or temporary surrogate. 8. ..."

6. The Code of Civil Procedure of the State of New York by New York (State). (1896)
"Dutten, Pom-is, and Disabilities of the surrogate, and the Officers of the Court ... Provisions Relating Generally to the Proceedings In surrogate»' Courts, ..."

7. Annotated Consolidated Laws of the State of New York: As Amended to January by Clarence Frank Birdseye, Robert Cushing Cumming, Frank Bixby Gilbert, New York (State). (1914)
"surrogate and acting surrogate; their official designations.— Where the county judge is also surrogate, he may be designated, iu any paper or proceeding ..."

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