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Surrogate   /sˈərəgət/  /sˈərəgˌeɪt/   Listen
Surrogate

noun
1.
Someone who takes the place of another person.  Synonyms: alternate, replacement.
2.
A person appointed to represent or act on behalf of others.  Synonym: deputy.



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"Surrogate" Quotes from Famous Books



... society rests on anger at vice and crime, while Stekel thinks that temper qualities should henceforth be treated in every biography and explored in every case that is psychoanalyzed. Hill's experiments with pugilism, and Cannon's plea for athletics as a legitimate surrogate for war in place of James' moral substitute, Frank Howard's opinion that an impulse that Darwin finds as early as the sixth week and hardly any student of childhood later than the sixth month, and which should not be repressed but developed to its uttermost, although carefully directed ...
— The Journal of Abnormal Psychology - Volume 10

... of making a contract; nor to a person not a citizen of the United States, unless such person reside within this State; nor to any one who is under twenty-one years of age; nor to any person who shall be adjudged incompetent by the surrogate to execute duties of such trust, by reason of drunkenness, improvidence, or want of understanding, nor to any married woman; but where a married woman is entitled to administration, the same may be granted to her husband in ...
— History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I • Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and Matilda Joslyn Gage

... SURROGATE. One appointed in place of another. Thus to avoid the necessity of journeying to the Bishop, he grants to other clergymen living in the principal towns, the power of giving licenses for marriage instead of publishing ...
— The Church Handy Dictionary • Anonymous

... a military or civilian office in the contemplation of the Constitution? Unquestionably the latter. A recent opinion by a New York surrogate deals adequately, though not authoritatively, with the subject: "The President receives his compensation for his services, rendered as Chief Executive of the Nation, not for the individual parts of his duties. No part of his compensation is paid from sums appropriated ...
— The Constitution of the United States of America: Analysis and Interpretation • Edward Corwin



Words linked to "Surrogate" :   father surrogate, backup man, agent, fill-in, reliever, relief, stand-in, adoptive, vicegerent, backup, substitute



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