Synonyms of the word surrogate


SURROGATEADOPTIVE - AGENT - ALTERNATE - BACKUP - DEPUTY - FILL-IN - FOSTER - RELIEF - RELIEVER - REPLACEMENT - STAND-IN - SUBSTITUTE

surrogate

  • n. A substitute (usually of a person, position or role).
  • n. A person or animal that acts as a substitute for the social or pastoral role of another, such as a surrogate…
  • n. (chiefly Britain) A deputy for a bishop in granting licences for marriage.
  • n. (US law): A judicial officer of limited jurisdiction, who administers matters of probate and interstate…
  • n. A surrogate or surrogate key is a unique identifier for either an entity in the modeled world or an object…
  • n. (computing) Any of a range of Unicode codepoints which are used in pairs in UTF-16 to represent characters…
  • adj. Of, concerning, relating to or acting as a substitute.
  • v. (transitive) To replace or substitute something with something else; appoint a successor.

adoptive

  • adj. Related through adoption; more generally, relating to adoption.

agent

  • n. One who exerts power, or has the power to act.
  • n. One who acts for, or in the place of, another (the principal), by authority from him/her; someone entrusted…
  • n. A person who looks for work for another person.
  • n. Someone who works for an intelligence agency.
  • n. An active power or cause or substance; something which has the power to produce an effect.
  • n. (computing) In the client-server model, the part of the system that performs information preparation and…
  • n. (grammar) The participant of a situation that carries out the action in this situation, e.g. "the boy"…

alternate

  • adj. Being or succeeding by turns; one following the other in succession of time or place; by turns first one…
  • adj. (mathematics) Designating the members in a series, which regularly intervene between the members of another…
  • adj. (US) Other; alternative.
  • adj. (botany) Distributed, as leaves, singly at different heights of the stem, and at equal intervals as respects…
  • n. That which alternates with something else; vicissitude.
  • n. (US) A substitute; an alternative; one designated to take the place of another, if necessary, in performing…
  • n. (mathematics) A proportion derived from another proportion by interchanging the means.
  • n. (US) A replacement of equal or greater value or function.
  • n. (heraldry) Figures or tinctures that succeed each other by turns.
  • v. (transitive) To perform by turns, or in succession; to cause to succeed by turns; to interchange regularly.
  • v. (intransitive) To happen, succeed, or act by turns; to follow reciprocally in place or time; followed…
  • v. (intransitive) To vary by turns.
  • v. (transitive, geometry) To perform an alternation (removal of alternate vertices) on (a polytope or tessellation);…

backup

  • n. A reserve or substitute.
  • n. (computing) A copy of a file or record, stored separately from the original, that can be used to recover…
  • n. An accumulation of material caused by a (partial) obstruction or (complete) blockage of the flow or movement…
  • n. (law enforcement) reinforcements.
  • adj. Standby, reserve or extra.
  • adj. (computing) That is intended as a backup.
  • v. Misspelling of back up.

deputy

  • n. One appointed as the substitute of another, and empowered to act for them, in their name or their behalf;…
  • n. (mining, historical) A person employed to install and remove props, brattices, etc. and to clear gas,…
  • n. (France): A member of the Chamber of Deputies, formerly called Corps Législatif.
  • n. (Ireland): a member of Dáil Éireann, or the title of a member of Dáil Éireann. (Normally capitalised in…
  • v. (informal, nonstandard) to deputise.

fill-in

  • n. A temporary replacement for another.

foster

  • adj. Providing parental care to unrelated children.
  • adj. Receiving such care.
  • adj. Related by such care.
  • n. (countable, obsolete) A forester.
  • n. (uncountable) The care given to another; guardianship.
  • v. (transitive) To nurture or bring up offspring; or to provide similar parental care to an unrelated child.
  • v. (transitive) To cultivate and grow something.
  • v. (transitive) To nurse or cherish something.
  • v. (intransitive, obsolete) To be nurtured or trained up together.

relief

  • n. The removal of stress or discomfort.
  • n. The feeling associated with the removal of stress or discomfort.
  • n. The person who takes over a shift for another.
  • n. Aid or assistance offered in time of need.
  • n. (law) Court-ordered compensation, aid, or protection, a redress.
  • n. A lowering of a tax through special provisions; short for tax relief.
  • n. A type of sculpture or other artwork in which shapes or figures protrude from a flat background.
  • n. The apparent difference in elevation in the surface of a painting or drawing made noticeable by a variation…
  • n. The difference of elevations on a surface.
  • adj. (of a surface) Characterized by surface inequalities.
  • adj. Of or used in letterpress.

reliever

  • n. (baseball) A relief pitcher.
  • n. Someone who fills in for another.

replacement

  • n. A person or thing that takes the place of another; a substitute.
  • n. The act of replacing something.

stand-in

  • n. A person of similar size and shape to an actor that "stands-in" for the actor during the lengthy process…
  • n. A substitute.

substitute

  • v. (transitive) To use in place of something else, with the same function.
  • v. (transitive) In the phrase "substitute X with/by Y", to use Y in place of X; to replace X with Y.
  • v. (transitive, sports) To remove (a player) from the field of play and bring on another in his place.
  • v. (intransitive) To serve as a replacement (for someone or something).
  • n. A replacement or stand-in for something that achieves a similar result or purpose.
  • n. (sports) A player who is available to replace another if the need arises, and who may or may not actually…
  • n. (historical) One who enlists for military service in the place of a conscript.

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