SUBROGATE

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 Dictionary entry overview: What does subrogate mean? 

• SUBROGATE (verb)
  The verb SUBROGATE has 1 sense:

1. substitute one creditor for another, as in the case where an insurance company sues the person who caused an accident for the insured

  Familiarity information: SUBROGATE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SUBROGATE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they subrogate    ... he / she / it subrogates   
Past simple: subrogated   
Past participle: subrogated   
-ing form: subrogating   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Substitute one creditor for another, as in the case where an insurance company sues the person who caused an accident for the insured

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Hypernyms (to "subrogate" is one way to...):

exchange; interchange; replace; substitute (put in the place of another; switch seemingly equivalent items)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s somebody

Derivation:

subrogation ((law) the act of substituting of one creditor for another)