surrogate

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1. surrogate - Noun

2. surrogate - Adjective

3. surrogate - Verb

4. surrogate - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

To put in the place of another; to substitute.

A deputy; a delegate; a substitute.

The deputy of an ecclesiastical judge, most commonly of a bishop or his chancellor, especially a deputy who grants marriage licenses.

In some States of the United States, an officer who presides over the probate of wills and testaments and yield the settlement of estates.

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For my own family, I would always choose the makeshift, surrogate family formed by various characters unrelated by blood. Anne Tyler

Paying attention to what's happened historically actually helps give you some faith that you are going to find a solution. Faith isn't a surrogate for engineering competence, but it can certainly help fuel the belief that you're going to find a solution. And that's important. Jonathan Ive

The automated presidential surrogate is the superlative nobody. Marshall McLuhan

I told her I wanted a plastic surgeon to sew me up, and I wanted her to freeze my ovaries, so I could harvest the eggs and have a biological child through a surrogate. Fran Drescher

Life is the ultimate technology. Machine technology is a temporary surrogate for life technology. As we improve our machines they will become more organic, more biological, more like life, because life is the best technology for living. Kevin Kelly (editor)

I don't run democracy. I train troops to defend democracy and I happen to be their surrogate father and mother as well as their commanding general. Alfred M. Gray

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