surrogate
100
6.8
- noun
- /ˈsɜrəɡət/
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sustituto
- The couple decided to work with a surrogate to help them start a family.
- surrogate decision-maker
- surrogate or proxy
- surrogate for the patient
OK, so now you have a surrogate who's not the egg donor.
- OK, so now you have a surrogate who's not the egg donor.
- Are there people that provide surrogate services for a fee?
- You can either go with a gestational carrier, AKAA surrogate, or we can start you on Lupron.
- And so my cousins, Michael Kearney, he was my surrogate dad.
- We also find out that Tenor functions as a sort of surrogate mother to Lebanon.
- I go what her I will have to have my sister's baby as a surrogate if she can't have kids.
- OK so up next, am I the asshole for refusing to meet by sister's surrogate?
- This clip should be played at a rally at a town hall and then have Kamala and her surrogates respond.
- And she becomes a surrogate for this guy named Matt.
- And so when you're in a situation where you are arguing in a public forum, it becomes almost like a surrogate court of law.
- And when the US government can't do, can't or won't do something, they could use surrogates.
- He's starting to get congratulations now from people like Byron Donalds, who's a surrogate for Donald Trump and is also a Floridian.
- And he says that, you know, these sorts of people, parents, surrogate parents, first teachers are it's among such persons moral educators are generally to be found.
- He pays a woman to be the carrier, the surrogate mother at at five months of gestation.
- It's about her kind of going more and more crazy in her head as things get more and more sketchy with the surrogate mother.
- Would they be willing to sponsor a surrogate attack on the US?
- And I'm not saying that because I'm some Larry Elder surrogate.
Examples
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Before long, the couple entered into a contract with the surrogate and paid her an undisclosed fee for her services.
Academic text (2011) -
We call that mother a surrogate mother.
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Are there people that provide surrogate services for a fee?
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OK, up next, my husband is pushing me to agree to make my sister our surrogate using the traditional way.
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So Pete and his husband adopted a child from a surrogate mother who basically gave birth.
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But I hate the idea of being pregnant, so if it does happen, I'd probably wanna hire a surrogate.
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She is practically my surrogate mother.
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The Fitt clan became a surrogate family for Florence and her son.
Fiction book (1999) -
I need a surrogate.
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After much consideration, she chose her close friend to be her surrogate during the pregnancy.
Synonyms
658
3.4
A person who acts for a leader when they are absent
367
2.9
A person who takes another person's place when needed
282
2.0
A person or thing that takes the place of another
211
3.2
A person or thing that takes the place of another
22
3.8
A person chosen to replace another if needed
19
5.8
A person who acts for someone else at meetings or votes
13
4.2
A person who takes another person's place, for example in a performance or at work
6
3.5
A person who temporarily does another person's job
1
4.0
A person or thing that takes the place of another
A person or thing that takes another's place for a time
A person or thing placed to take another person's place
Antonyms
Compounds
How Substitutive
19
5.8
100
6.8
282
2.0
211
3.2
13
4.2
22
3.8
Surface Forms
Etymology
Surrogate comes from Latin parts sub- ('in place of') and rogare ('to ask'), the same root you see in interrogate ('to ask'). So it originally meant someone 'asked to stand in', which is why a surrogate is a person who acts as a representative or stand-in for another.