Definition of Surrogate

Surrogate

A deputy; a delegate; a substitute.

The deputy of an ecclesiastical judge, most commonly of a bishop or his chancellor, especially a deputy who grants marriage licenses.

In some States of the United States, an officer who presides over the probate of wills and testaments and yield the settlement of estates.

To put in the place of another; to substitute.

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Surrogate Quotations

The Vatican is against surrogate mothers. Good thing they didn't have that rule when Jesus was born.
Elayne Boosler

Oscar Hammerstein was a surrogate father during all those many days, and weeks and months when I didn't see my own father.
Stephen Sondheim

But presidential approval also became a surrogate measure of national unity and patriotism.
Thomas E. Mann

But when I would see the surrogate, my first instinct, my first reaction would be jealousy, because she was doing what I wanted to do.
Cheryl Tiegs

For my own family, I would always choose the makeshift, surrogate family formed by various characters unrelated by blood.
Anne Tyler

I told her I wanted a plastic surgeon to sew me up, and I wanted her to freeze my ovaries, so I could harvest the eggs and have a biological child through a surrogate.
Fran Drescher

There was a friend of ours who worked with a girl who had said she would consider being a surrogate. We met her and right away she was awesome. We were looking for someone who could take care of themselves and it was pretty clear she could.
Christopher Meloni

I don't run democracy. I train troops to defend democracy and I happen to be their surrogate father and mother as well as their commanding general.
Alfred M. Gray

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Surrogate Translations

surrogate in German is nicht vollwertig
surrogate in Spanish is sustituto

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