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surrogate1 adjectivesurrogate2 noun surrogatesurrogate2 noun [countable]  surrogate2Origin: 1500-1600 Latin past participle of surrogare ‘to ask in place of another’, from sub- ( ➔ SUB-) + rogare ‘to ask’ - The President's surrogates have been campaigning for him nonstop.
- As Dole and Kemp headed across the country, the team of surrogates was making its maiden voyage in California.
- But I have to resist trying to make them surrogates of me.
- Civilization itself, in fact, is a pathological surrogate for unconscious infantile disappointments.
- Deaver also appeared to act as a messenger between the First lady and her husband, and sometimes even as a surrogate.
- Then, one night when his white surrogate left the studio, Winslow read part of his own Script on the air.
- This special class acted as their surrogates for over 400 years.
1a person or thing that takes the place of someone or something elsesurrogate for Bright-light therapy is used as a surrogate for sunshine.2a surrogate mother |