SURROGATE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does surrogate mean? 

• SURROGATE (noun)
  The noun SURROGATE has 2 senses:

1. someone who takes the place of another person

2. a person appointed to represent or act on behalf of others

  Familiarity information: SURROGATE used as a noun is rare.

• SURROGATE (adjective)
  The adjective SURROGATE has 1 sense:

1. providing or receiving nurture or parental care though not related by blood or legal ties

  Familiarity information: SURROGATE used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SURROGATE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Someone who takes the place of another person

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

alternate; replacement; surrogate

Hypernyms ("surrogate" is a kind of...):

backup; backup man; fill-in; relief; reliever; stand-in; substitute (someone who takes the place of another (as when things get dangerous or difficult))

Sense 2

Meaning:

A person appointed to represent or act on behalf of others

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

deputy; surrogate

Hypernyms ("surrogate" is a kind of...):

agent (a representative who acts on behalf of other persons or organizations)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "surrogate"):

vicegerent (someone appointed by a ruler as an administrative deputy)

• SURROGATE (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Providing or receiving nurture or parental care though not related by blood or legal ties

Synonyms:

foster; surrogate

Context example:

surrogate father

Similar:

adoptive (of parents and children; related by adoption)

 Context examples 

Use of in vitro tissues or organ explants as surrogates for whole organism testing.

(Organ Model, NCI Thesaurus)

The determination of the collagen closure time, as a surrogate of platelet function, present in a sample.

(Platelet Function Closure Time Measurement, NCI Thesaurus)

Hsp72 exhibits anti-apoptotic functions; its up-regulation may be used as a surrogate marker for Hsp90 inhibition.

(Ganetespib, NCI Thesaurus)

They implanted 42 surrogates, resulting in 22 pregnancies, but there were still only two infant macaques, and they died soon after birth.

(Healthy cloned monkeys born in Shanghai, Wikinews)

With a variable antigen-binding region that acts as a surrogate antigen for CA-125, abagovomab may stimulate the host immune system to elicit humoral and cellular immune responses against CA-125-positive tumor cells, resulting in inhibition of tumor cell proliferation.

(Abagovomab, NCI Thesaurus)

If you want to work with a surrogate, settle your agreement on March 11 or 20, or if you want to adopt, send your application to the adoption agency on one of these dates, as they are so fortunate for your personal life.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

One of our clerks, who was an outsider, used, in the height of this contest, to sit with his hat on, that he might be ready to rush out and swear before a surrogate any victim who was brought in.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

The scientists implanted 21 ova into surrogate mother monkeys, resulting in six pregnancies, two of which produced living animals.

(Healthy cloned monkeys born in Shanghai, Wikinews)