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UK
/sˈʌɹəɡˌeɪt/
]
[ US /ˈsɝəˌɡeɪt, ˈsɝəɡət/ ]
[ US /ˈsɝəˌɡeɪt, ˈsɝəɡət/ ]
NOUN
- a person appointed to represent or act on behalf of others
- someone who takes the place of another person
ADJECTIVE
-
providing or receiving nurture or parental care though not related by blood or legal ties
foster home
foster child
surrogate father
foster parent
How To Use surrogate In A Sentence
- Some Balts hoped that, if and when they joined the EU, it would be a surrogate for a formal military alliance.
- Surrogates have no idea what they were surrogated for ... McCain's Brother Says McCain Would Chase Bin Laden Across Borders -- Echoing Obama's Position
- A county court is held by a county judge elected for four years, who is also _surrogate_, called in other states, _judge of probate_. The Government Class Book Designed for the Instruction of Youth in the Principles of Constitutional Government and the Rights and Duties of Citizens.
- These measures are also recommended in BT Yevamot 65b, where the rabbis point out that a precedent for the practice of divorcing an infertile wife after ten years may be drawn from Genesis 16: 3, since it was only after ten years of living in the land of Canaan that Sarai accepted her infertility and surrogated her servant to bear a child on her behalf. Infertile Wife in Rabbinic Judaism.
- She used a surrogate after suffering preeclampsia with her previous pregnancies. The Sun
- Finally, nostalgic for his happy Chicago childhood, he turned his drama department into a surrogate family with himself as benevolently beaming paterfamilias.
- A rare sea eagle chick which was rescued from a nest after its father was poisoned has been successfully fostered in the wild by surrogate parents in the first case of its kind in Scotland.
- In contrast, HPLC determination of hydroxyproline content, as a surrogate marker for collagen protein levels, demonstrated no significant differences between the bleomycin groups - in agreement with the Ashcroft scores. PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
- And I didn't want Lucas worming his way into our lives and becoming a surrogate father.
- When Rob Venditti was still in the process of writing the comic book script that would become "The Surrogates", he and his wife daydreamed one night about who might star in a hypothetic film adaptation. Rob Venditti On Bruce Willis, ‘The Surrogates,’ And Your First Look At The ‘Flesh And Bone’ Prequel