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surrogate
  1. A substitute (usually of a person, position or role).
  2. A person or animal that acts as a substitute for the social or pastoral role of another, such as a surrogate mother.
  3. (chiefly Britain) A deputy for a bishop in granting licences for marriage.
  4. (US law): A judicial officer of limited jurisdiction, who administers matters of probate and interstate succession and, in some cases, adoptions.
  5. A surrogate or surrogate key is a unique identifier for either an entity in the modeled world or an object in the database.
  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.
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  8. Examples:
    1. “He explained that if Ms. Binsky agreed to serve as a surrogate for him, he would be able to afford to help her mother.”
surrogacy
  1. (rare) The state or condition of being a surrogate.
  2. The practice of being a surrogate mother.
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  4. Examples:
    1. “You could also consider other forms of assisted conception such as egg donation or surrogacy.”
      “Just as surrogacy delinks the genetic and the gestational mother, so embryo-freezing disconnects conception and gestation.”
      “For instance, adoption, surrogacy, foster parenting, and prenuptial and postnuptial agreements are in the first of four parts.”
surrogation
  1. The act or result of surrogating; replacement, substitution.
  2. Examples:
    1. “Of course, the description of minstrelsy's particular form of braggadocio as a surrogation of frontier identity is intriguing, to say the least.”
      “The next step was a series of group activities where divergent thinking skills such as brainstorming and surrogation were used.”
      “Taylor criticizes Roach's approach for failing to consider subaltern and dissenting performances that reject surrogation.”
surrogateship
surrogateships
surrogations
  1. plural of surrogation
surrogates
  1. plural of surrogate
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  3. Examples:
    1. “The figures, in this way, served as surrogates of the body, enabling the idea of the body to transgress social norms without consequence.”
      “For delegates and other surrogates who may get questions from the media, the campaign passes out two-sided laminated cards.”
      “The representing homomorphisms allow the scientist to bring the powerful resources of set theory to bear on the surrogates.”
surrogacies
  1. plural of surrogacy
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Reframing would capture the work that goes into surrogacies regardless of the outcomes.”
      “While this type of situation exists in some surrogacies, in other cases, a donated gamete from a foreign donor is used to create the embryo.”
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