Definition of Surrogate

Surrogate

A deputy; a delegate; a substitute.
The deputy of an ecclesiastical judge, most commonly of a bishop or his chancellor, especially a deputy who grants marriage licenses.
In some States of the United States, an officer who presides over the probate of wills and testaments and yield the settlement of estates.
To put in the place of another; to substitute.

The Vatican is against surrogate mothers. Good thing they didn't have that rule when Jesus was born.
Elayne Boosler

For my own family, I would always choose the makeshift, surrogate family formed by various characters unrelated by blood.
Anne Tyler

Surrogate motherhood has been the subject of much philosophical and political dispute over the years.
Thomas Frank

Oscar Hammerstein was a surrogate father during all those many days, and weeks and months when I didn't see my own father.
Stephen Sondheim

But when I would see the surrogate, my first instinct, my first reaction would be jealousy, because she was doing what I wanted to do.
Cheryl Tiegs

surrogate in German is nicht vollwertig
surrogate in Spanish is sustituto

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