surrogate🔊

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.

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

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

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

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

(economics) An ersatz good.

(databases) A unique identifier for an entity or object, not derived from application data.

Of, concerning, relating to or acting as a substitute.

To replace or substitute something with something else; to appoint a successor. +