noun
- a deputy or substitute
- ☆ in some states, probate court, or a judge of this court
- Psychiatry a substitute figure, esp. a person of some authority, who replaces a father or mother in one's feelings
- a woman who, by prior agreement, becomes pregnant and bears a child for another woman, who will raise the child as its mother
Origin:
L surrogatus, pp. of surrogare, to elect in place of another, substitute < sub- (see sub-) + rogare, to ask: see rogation
adjective
of or acting as a surrogate
transitive verb surrogated, surrogating
to put in another's place as a substitute or deputy