surrogate
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English [edit]
Etymology [edit]
From Latin surrogatus, perfect passive participle of surrogare (“ask”); a variant of subrogare, from sub (“under”) + rogare (“ask”).
Pronunciation [edit]
Noun [edit]
surrogate (plural surrogates)
- A substitute (usually of a person, position or role).
- A person or animal that acts as a substitute for the social or pastoral role of another, such as a surrogate mother.
- (chiefly UK) A deputy for a bishop in granting licences for marriage.
- (US law): A judicial officer of limited jurisdiction, who administers matters of probate and intestate succession and, in some cases, adoptions.
- 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.
Synonyms [edit]
- See also Wikisaurus:substitute
Translations [edit]
A substitute
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A person or animal that acts as a substitute for another
A deputy for a bishop in granting licences for marriage
US law: A judicial officer of limited jurisdiction
Surrogate key
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Adjective [edit]
surrogate (comparative more surrogate, superlative most surrogate)
- Of, concerning, relating to or acting as a substitute.
Translations [edit]
Of, concerning, relating to or acting as a substitute
Verb [edit]
surrogate (third-person singular simple present surrogates, present participle surrogating, simple past and past participle surrogated)
- (transitive) To replace or substitute something with something else; appoint a successor.
Synonyms [edit]
Translations [edit]
to appoint a successor
See also [edit]
Italian [edit]
Adjective [edit]
surrogate f
- feminine plural of surrogato
Latin [edit]
Verb [edit]
surrogāte
- first-person plural present active imperative of surrogō