English Dictionary

surrogate

/ˈsʌɹəɡɪt/

noun

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 parent.

She decided to become a surrogate for her sister who couldn't have children.

意味（1）

A substitute (usually of a person, position or role).

A mixture of horseradish and mustard often serves as a surrogate for wasabi.

意味（2）

A person or animal that acts as a substitute for the social or pastoral role of another, such as a surrogate parent.

意味（3）

(chiefly Britain) A deputy for a bishop in granting licences for marriage.

意味（4）

(US, politics) A politician or person of influence campaigning for a presidential candidate.

意味（5）

(US law) A judicial officer of limited jurisdiction, who administers matters of probate and intestate succession and, in some cases, adoptions.

意味（6）

(computing) Any of a range of Unicode codepoints which are used in pairs in UTF-16 to represent characters beyond the Basic Multilingual Plane.

意味（7）

(economics) An ersatz good.

意味（8）

(databases) Ellipsis of surrogate key.