Surrogate

Definitions

1. A substitute (usually of a person, position or role).
2. A person or animal that acts as a substitute for the social or pastoral role of another, such as a surrogate parent.
3. A deputy for a bishop in granting licences for marriage.
   British
4. A politician or person of influence campaigning for a presidential candidate.
   US
5. A judicial officer of limited jurisdiction, who administers matters of probate and intestate succession and, in some cases, adoptions.
   US
6. Any of a range of Unicode codepoints which are used in pairs in UTF-16 to represent characters beyond the Basic Multilingual Plane.
7. An ersatz good.
8. Ellipsis of surrogate key.
   abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis

Equivalents

Examples

“A mixture of horseradish and mustard often serves as a surrogate for wasabi.”

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