| 单词 | surrogate |
| 释义 | surrogate —surrogateship, n. —surrogation, n. n. , adj. /serr"euh gayt', -git, sur"-/; v. /serr"euh gayt', sur"-/, n., adj., v., surrogated, surrogating. n. 1. a person appointed to act for another; deputy. 2. (in some states) a judicial officer having jurisdiction over the probate of wills, the administration of estates, etc. 3. the deputy of an ecclesiastical judge, esp. of a bishop or a bishop's chancellor. 4. a substitute. 5. a surrogate mother. adj. 6. regarded or acting as a surrogate: a surrogate father. 7. involving or indicating the use of a surrogate mother to conceive or carry an embryo: surrogate parenting. v.t. 8. to put into the place of another as a successor, substitute, or deputy; substitute for another. 9. to subrogate. [1525-35; < L surrogatus, assimilated var. of SUBROGATUS; see SUBROGATE] |
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