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Word: surrogate (lookup usage) (lookup stats)


Meaning:

Adjective:

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

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Noun:

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

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Verb:

  • transitive To replace or substitute something with something else; appoint a successor.

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