Surrogate

Pronunciation

• (adjective and noun) IPA: /ˈsʌɹəɡɨt/
• (verb) IPA: /ˈsʌɹəɡeɪt/

Origin

From Latin surrogatus, perfect passive participle of surrogare ("ask"); a variant of subrogare, from sub ("under") + rogare ("ask").

Full definition of surrogate

Noun

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. (chiefly British) A deputy for a bishop in granting licences for marriage.
4. (US legal): 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. (computing) Any of a range of Unicode codepoints which are used in pairs in UTF-16 to represent characters beyond the Basic Multilingual Plane.

Synonyms

Adjective

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

Verb

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

Synonyms

• deputize, foster, replace, subrogate, substitute