1. surrogate(n = noun.person) alternate, replacement - someone who takes the place of another person;
is a kind of backup, backup man, fill-in, relief, reliever, stand-in, substitute
2. surrogate(n = noun.person) deputy - a person appointed to represent or act on behalf of others;
is a kind of agent
has particulars: vicegerent
surrogate(s = adj.all) foster - providing or receiving nurture or parental care though not related by blood or legal ties; "foster parent"; "foster child"; "foster home"; "surrogate father"
1. A deputy; a delegate; a substitute. [1913 Webster]
2. The deputy of an ecclesiastical judge, most commonly of a bishop or his chancellor, especially a deputy who grants marriage licenses. [1913 Webster]
3. In some States of the United States, an officer who presides over the probate of wills and testaments and yield the settlement of estates. [1913 Webster]
4. a surrogate mother. [PJC]
To put in the place of another; to substitute. Dr. H. More. [1913 Webster]
surrogate, n.
1 a substitute, esp. for a person in a specific role or office.
2 Brit. a deputy, esp. of a bishop in granting marriage licences.
3 US a judge in charge of probate, inheritance, and guardianship.
Idiom:
surrogate mother
1 a person acting the role of mother.
2 a woman who bears a child on behalf of another woman, from her own egg fertilized by the other woman's partner.
Derivative:
surrogacy n. surrogateship n.
Etymology:
L surrogatus past part. of surrogare elect as a substitute (as SUR-(1), rogare ask)
N deputy, substitute, vice, proxy, locum tenens, badli, delegate, representative, next friend, surrogate, secondary, regent, viceregent, vizier, minister, vicar, premier, chancellor, prefect, provost, warden, lieutenant, archon, consul, proconsul, viceroy, commissioner, Tsung-li Yamen, Wai Wu Pu, plenipotentiary, alter ego, team, eight, eleven, champion, acting, vice, vice regal, accredited to, in behalf of.