SURROGATE Synonyms

• someone authorized to exercise the powers of sheriff in emergencies

• an assistant with power to act when his superior is absent

• a member of the lower chamber of a legislative assembly (such as in France)

• a person appointed to represent or act on behalf of others

• the act of furnishing an equivalent person or thing in the place of another

• someone who takes the place of another person

• an event in which one thing is substituted for another

• a person or thing that takes or can take the place of another

• filling again by supplying what has been used up

• a person who follows next in order

• one of a number of things from which only one can be chosen

• serving or used in place of another

• necessitating a choice between mutually exclusive possibilities

• pertaining to unconventional choices

• an accumulation caused by clogging or a stoppage

• someone who takes the place of another (as when things get dangerous or difficult)

• a musical part (vocal or instrumental) that supports or provides background for other musical parts

• (computer science) a copy of a file or directory on a separate storage device

• the act of providing approval and support

• a natural object that covers or envelops

• an artifact that covers something else (usually to protect or shelter or conceal it)

• the act of concealing the existence of something by obstructing the view of it

• the act of protecting something by covering it

• the work of applying something

• someone who takes the place of another (as when things get dangerous or difficult)

• a person authorized to act for another

• a power of attorney document given by shareholders of a corporation authorizing a specific vote on their behalf at a corporate meeting

• being of second rank or importance or value; not direct or immediate

• the defensive football players who line up behind the linemen

• coil such that current is induced in it by passing a current through the primary coil

• inferior in rank or status

• depending on or incidental to what is original or primary

• not of major importance

• belonging to a lower class or rank

• someone who takes the place of another (as when things get dangerous or difficult)

• United States songwriter whose songs embody the sentiment of the South before the American Civil War (1826-1864)

• providing or receiving nurture or parental care though not related by blood or legal ties

• promote the growth of

• bring up under fosterage; of children

• help develop, help grow

• act as a substitute

• appoint as a substitute

• substitute a person or thing for (another that is broken or inefficient or lost or no longer working or yielding what is expected)

• take the place or move into the position of

• put something back where it belongs

• put in the place of another; switch seemingly equivalent items

• substitute one creditor for another, as in the case where an insurance company sues the person who caused an accident for the insured

• of leaves and branches etc; first on one side and then on the other in two ranks along an axis; not paired

• someone who takes the place of another person

• every second one of a series

• serving or used in place of another

• occurring by turns; first one and then the other

• go back and forth; swing back and forth between two states or conditions

• exchange people temporarily to fulfill certain jobs and functions

• be an understudy or alternate for a role

• reverse (a direction, attitude, or course of action)

• do something in turns