Usually means: Substitute acting for another person.
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We found 40 dictionaries that define the word surrogate:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. surrogate: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. surrogate: Merriam-Webster
  3. surrogate: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. surrogate: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. surrogate: Collins English Dictionary
  6. surrogate: Vocabulary.com
  7. Surrogate, surrogate: Wordnik
  8. surrogate: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. surrogate: Wiktionary
  10. surrogate: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. surrogate: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. surrogate: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. surrogate: Dictionary.com
  14. surrogate: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. surrogate: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Surrogate (clergy), Surrogate (disambiguation), Surrogate, The Surrogate (film): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Surrogate: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. surrogate: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. surrogate: Rhymezone
  20. Surrogate: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. surrogate: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. surrogate: FreeDictionary.org
  23. surrogate: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. surrogate: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science (No longer online)

Business (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. surrogate: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  3. surrogate: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  4. surrogate: Law.com Dictionary
  5. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  6. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  7. surrogate: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. surrogate: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. surrogate: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. surrogate: Medical dictionary

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Surrogate: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics

(Note: See surrogated as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A substitute (usually of a person, position or role).
noun:  A person or animal that acts as a substitute for the social or pastoral role of another, such as a surrogate parent.
noun:  (chiefly British) A deputy for a bishop in granting licences for marriage.
noun:  (US, politics) A politician or person of influence campaigning for a presidential candidate.
noun:  (US law) A judicial officer of limited jurisdiction, who administers matters of probate and intestate succession and, in some cases, adoptions.
noun:  (computing) Any of a range of Unicode codepoints which are used in pairs in UTF-16 to represent characters beyond the Basic Multilingual Plane.
noun:  (economics) An ersatz good.
adjective:  Of, concerning, relating to or acting as a substitute.
verb:  (transitive) To replace or substitute something with something else; to appoint a successor.
noun:  (databases) Ellipsis of surrogate key. [(databases) A unique identifier for an entity or object, not derived from application data.]

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