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Surrogate   /sˈərəgət/  /sˈərəgˌeɪt/   Listen
Surrogate

adjective
1.
Providing or receiving nurture or parental care though not related by blood or legal ties.  Synonym: foster.  "Foster child" , "Foster home" , "Surrogate father"



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"Surrogate" Quotes from Famous Books



... among us; the payment of the tax was never in arrears; and, as will be shown later on, we were by no means defenceless. Our stores of weapons and ammunition, as well as our subsidies to the warlike Masai, might be reckoned as a surrogate for a military budget. As to the lack of a magistracy, we were such arrant barbarians that we did not even consider a civil or a criminal code necessary, nor did we at that time possess a written constitution. The ...
— Freeland - A Social Anticipation • Theodor Hertzka

... advice, Ned, you'll keep where you are," was the answer. "You've been to the surrogate's office, and have seen the will of old Simonds, and KNOW that he has left his daughter seventy-eight thousand dollars; and, after all, this pocket-handkerchief may be only a sign. I always distrust people who throw ...
— Autobiography of a Pocket-Hankerchief • James Fenimore Cooper

... common-form business was), being settled, I took her down to the office one morning to pay her bill. Mr. Spenlow had stepped out, old Tiffey said, to get a gentleman sworn for a marriage licence; but as I knew he would be back directly, our place lying close to the Surrogate's, and to the Vicar-General's office too, I ...
— David Copperfield • Charles Dickens

... could show you,' continued Mr. Carvalho, 'public records of this city made within forty years which are entirely illegible and consequently worthless, because cheap inks were used in the writing. These include not only records of wills in the Surrogate's office, but entries and transfers of real estate which are likely to come up in the course of litigation at any time, thereby affecting the rights of ...
— Forty Centuries of Ink • David N. Carvalho



Words linked to "Surrogate" :   fill-in, substitute, stand-in, backup man, adoptive, vicegerent, relief, reliever, backup, agent



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