Surrogate

Definition: Surrogate

Surrogate

Adjective

1. Providing or receiving nurture or parental care though not related by blood or legal ties; "foster parent"; "foster child"; "foster home"; "surrogate father".

Noun

1. Someone who takes the place of another person.

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

Date "surrogate" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1790. (references)

Domain	Definition
Information	Brief descriptions of textual material, provided by abstracting and indexing services to identify, locate and obtain access to published and unpublished works. Source: European Union. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Surrogate

Synonyms: foster (adj), alternate (n), deputy (n), replacement (n). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Deputy	Noun: deputy, substitute, vice, proxy, locum tenens, badli, delegate, representative, next friend, surrogate, secondary.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Surrogate

English words defined with "surrogate": fostered ♦ surrogate mother, Surrogateship. (references)

Specialty definitions using "surrogate": intelligent key ♦ simulated workplace protection factor, surrogate key, Surrogate Mothers ♦ Viral Load. (references)

Etymologies containing "surrogate": Surrogation. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Surrogate" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses.

German (ersatz).

Domain	Title
Books	Application of Surrogate Measures to Improve Treatment Plant Performance: Project 363 (reference) Between Strangers: Surrogate Mothers, Expectant Fathers, and Brave New Babies (reference) Family Beyond Family: The Surrogate Parent in Schools and Other Community Agencies (reference) Surrogate Motherhood : The Legal and Human Issues (reference) Surrogate Parenting (reference) (more book examples)

Theater & Movies	Landmark Trials of Modern Ethics-Kaplan v. Chamberlain: The Battle for a Surrogate Baby (reference) Private Practices: The Story of a Sex Surrogate (reference) Surrogate, The (reference) (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music	Goebbels: Surrogate Cities (reference) Violent Passion Surrogate (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Thumbnail	Description & Credit	Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Senopol surrogate mother with Romosinuano embryo transfer calf. A tropically adapted breed from the Caribbean, Senopols are increasingly popular throughout warmer U.S. regions. P. Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Scott Bauer..		Protect the rights of widows, widowers, & orphans : vote for Marie M. Lambert, Democratic nominee for Surrogate. Credit: Library of Congress.
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		In addition, anti-HCV positivity may act as a surrogate marker for HBV infectious donors who are HBsAg negative. (references)
		Incidence of certain sexually transmitted diseases has been used as a plausible surrogate for HIV seroconversion. (references)
		Now that more specific assays are available, the continuing need for certain surrogate assays has been questioned. (references)
Political Economy	TAIWAN	The CBC uses direct foreign exchange trading by its surrogate banks and public policy statements as its main tools to influence exchange rates. (references)
	Lebanon	Until May 2000, Israel exerted control in or near its self-proclaimed "security zone" in the south through direct military action and support for its surrogate, the South Lebanon Army (SLA). (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

"Surrogate" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 96.12% of the time. "Surrogate" is used about 129 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	96.12%	124	28,785
Lexical Verb (infinitive)	1.55%	2	245,945
Lexical Verb (base form)	1.55%	2	245,945
Noun (proper)	0.78%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	129	N/A

Expressions using "surrogate": document surrogate ♦ father surrogate ♦ surrogate key ♦ surrogate mother ♦ Surrogate Mothers. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "surrogate"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		surrogat (analogue, bastard, ersatz, mock, replacement, substitute), zëvendësues (acting, adjunct, deputy, ersatz, expletive, fill in, locum tenens, makeshift, stand by, stand in, stopgap, substitute, substitution), peshkop (bishop, diocesan, episcopate, pontiff). (various references)

Arabic		‏موظف قضائي وصي, ‏نائب (acting, agent, delegate, junior, procurator, representative, vicar), ‏قائم مقام, ‏بديل (alternative, ersatz, in exchange for, replacement, standing by, substitute). (various references)

Bulgarian		съдия по наследствени дела, сурогат (imitation, substitute), заместник (alternate, deputy, lieutenant, pinch hitter, proxy, replacement, secondary, stand by, stand in, sub, substitute, succedaneum, successor, vice, vicegerent), заместител (analog, analogue, makeshift, stand in, sub, substituent, substitute, succedaneum), епископски наместник. (various references)

Chinese		代理人 (Proxies, proxy). (various references)

Czech		náhradník (alternate, reserve player, stand in, standby, sub, substitute, understudy), náhrada (compensation, premium, recompense, recovery, redress, reimbursement, restitution, substitute, substitution). (various references)

Danish		surrogat (equivalent), erstatningsprodukt (product replacement, product substitution, replacement, substitute, substitution). (various references)

Dutch		substitutie-document (condensate, document surrogate, information product), vervangingsmiddel (substitute), vervangingsdocument (condensate, document surrogate, information product), condensaat (condensate, condensed steam, document surrogate, information product). (various references)

Farsi		قاءم مقام شدن , قاءم مقام (Deputy, Successor, Vicar), وکیل شدن , عوض (Lieu, Recompense, Reparation, Stead, Substitute), جایگیر (Expletive), جانشین شدن (Heir, Inherit, Supersede), جانشین (Deputy, Pinch, Relief, Substitute, Vicar, Vicarious). (various references)

Finnish		sijaismarkkeri (surrogate markers). (various references)

French		représentant. (various references)

German		nicht vollwertig, Ersatz (compensation, equivalent, pinch hitter, recovery, reimbursement, reparation, replacement, replacements, reserves, stand by, stand in, standby, substitute, substitutes, substitution, understudy). (various references)

Greek		προϊόν αντικατάστασης (substitute), υποκατάστατο εγγράφου (condensate, document surrogate, information product), υποκατάστατο (ersatz, substitute), ελεγκτήσ διαθήκων, αναπληρωτήσ (deputy, substitute, vice gerent), αντιπρόσωποσ (agent, correspondent, delegate, representative, vice gerent), τοποτηρητήσ (governor). (various references)

Hebrew		תחליף (alternative, ersatz, makeshift, replacement, spare, substitute, substitution). (various references)

Hungarian		pótszer (substitute), pótanyag (emergency substitute), helyettes (acting, alternate, assistant, deputy, fill in, lieutenant, locum tenens, proxy, stand-in, substitute, supply, vicar, vice). (various references)

Italian		surrogato (ersatz, makeshift, substitute). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		代理母 (surrogate mother), サルモネラ食中�' (overall, salmonella food poisoning, salon, salon music, sarong, sarong apron, surrogate mother, surrogate pair). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		サロゲートマザー (surrogate mother), サロゲートペア (surrogate pair), � いりはは (surrogate mother). (various references)

Korean		대리. (various references)

Pig Latin		urrogatesay

Portuguese		sucedâneo (ersatz). (various references)

Romanian		surogat (apology, composition, counterfeit, substitute, succedaneum), locţiitor (locum tenens, stand in), înlocuitor (acting, deputy, locum tenens, makeshift, substitute). (various references)

Russian		заместитель (alternator, substitute, vice), заменитель (ersatz, substitute). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		surogat (ersatz, makeshift), zamena (commutation, replacement, rotation, substitution). (various references)

Spanish		sustituto (alternate, deputy, ersatz, replacement, substitute), sucedáneo (ersatz, substitute). (various references)

Swedish		surrogat (ersatz, substitute), surrigat-, sekundärdokument (condensate, document surrogate, information product). (various references)

Turkish		yerine geçen kimse (incomer, replacement, substitute, supply), vekil (administrator, alternate, assignee, attorney, commissary, commissioner, delegate, deputy, lieutenant, locum, locum tenens, minister, nominee, proxy, representative, stand in, substitute, supply, vicar, vice, vice gerent), vasiyetin gerçekleştirilmesine bakan hakim. (various references)

Ukrainian		заступник (advocate, alternate, deputy, lieutenant, nurser, patron, promoter, protector), замінник. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "surrogate": surrogated, surrogates. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Surrogate" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: serrogate, serrulata, surogate. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "surrogate" (pronounced ser"ugut or ser"ugā't)
4	-u g u t	aggregate.
3	-g u t	agate, argot, bigot, ergot, faggot, frigate, gigot, ingot, legate, maggot, nugget, spigot, target.
4	-u g ā' t	abrogate, castigate, congregate, corrugate, delegate, desegregate, fumigate, instigate, interrogate, investigate, irrigate, mitigate, navigate, obligate, propagate, relegate, segregate, subjugate.
3	-g ā' t	arrogate, floodgate, litigate, profligate, tailgate.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-e-g-o-r-r-s-t-u"
	-1 letter: garrotes, grouters, outrages.
	-2 letters: aerugos, arguers, arouser, garotes, garrets, garrote, garters, graters, grouser, grouter, orgeats, outages, outrage, ragouts, roaster, rouster, routers, storage, tourers, trouser, turgors.
	-3 letters: aerugo, argots, arguer, argues, arouse, arrest, augers, ergots, erugos, garote, garret, garter, gaster, gators, grater, grates, greats, groats, grouse, grouts, oaters, orates, orgeat, ouster, outage, outers, outgas.
	Words containing the letters "a-e-g-o-r-r-s-t-u"
	+1 letter: corrugates, regulators, surrogated, surrogates.
	+2 letters: burgomaster, expurgators, purgatories.
	+3 letters: burgomasters, grossularite, groundwaters, rotogravures.
	+4 letters: argentiferous, breakthroughs, counterargues, garnetiferous, grossularites, overregulates, photogravures, reregulations, stereoregular, thoroughfares, turbochargers.
	+5 letters: countercharges, daguerreotypes, osmoregulatory, oversaturating, prefigurations, regurgitations, supererogation, supererogatory, thoroughbraces.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro.

Expression	Frequency per Day	Expression	Frequency per Day
surrogate mother	498	surrogate carrier	8
surrogate	328	county court nassau surrogate	8
sex surrogate	156	surrogate moms	8
sexual surrogate	123	county court king surrogate	8
surrogate motherhood	81	key surrogate	8
surrogate mother online	60	county court suffolk surrogate	8
gestational surrogate	28	surrogate parent	8
surrogate agency	25	county court queens surrogate	8
surrogate parenting	25	adopt adoptable adoptee adoptee adoptees adoptees adopting adoption adoption adoption adoption adoptive adoptive adoptive birthfamily birthmother birthmother birthparent birthparent care care family family fost foster kinship parent parent registry reunion reunited surrogacy surrogate surrogate unplanned	7
court surrogate	22	surrogate mothering	7
new york surrogate court	20	partner sex surrogate	7
finding surrogate	18	health care surrogate	7
parentage surrogate	16	become a surrogate mother	5
surrogate mom	12	contract surrogate	5
county court new surrogate york	12	surrogate classifieds	5
court new state surrogate york	12	father surrogate	5
com surrogate	11	profile surrogate	5
sex surrogate therapy	9	city court new surrogate york	5
surrogate partner	8	becoming a surrogate mother	5
center for surrogate parenting	8	court ny surrogate	5
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Surrogate

Definition: Surrogate

Surrogate

Adjective

Noun

Specialty Definition: Surrogate

Synonyms: Surrogate

Synonyms within Context: Surrogate

Deputy

Crosswords: Surrogate

Commercial Usage: Surrogate

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Photo Album: Surrogate

Non-Fiction Usage: Surrogate

Usage Frequency: Surrogate

Expressions: Surrogate

Frequency of Internet Keywords: Surrogate

Modern Translation: Surrogate

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Derivations & Misspellings: Surrogate

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Rhyming with "Surrogate"

Anagrams: Surrogate

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

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