surrogate

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The story revealed that the woman who served as a surrogate was doing so to help pay for her daughter's college tuition.

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  1. noun One that takes the place of another; a substitute.
  2. noun A person or animal that functions as a substitute for another, as in a social or family role.
  3. noun A surrogate mother.
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  • But we think that for the majority of people an activity whose main goal is fulfillment (that is, a surrogate activity) does not bring completely satisfactory fulfillment. —  The Unabomber's Manifesto
  • They had their own troubles -- surrogate problems that had been stuck in committee for weeks -- but he showed up. —  F ;SF; - vol 104 issue 04 - April 2003
  • Purdom's reputation as a surrogate is underlined by the fact that he got his first chance of stardom when he replaced Marlon Brando in The Egyptian (1954) after Brando wisely cried off, preferring to play Napoleon in Desirée instead. —  Culture | guardian.co.uk
  • Calling for ousting them from the G8 and then casually reversing yourself through a surrogate is pretty careless and dangerous. —  democracyarsenal.org
  • Here's the bottom line: the woman in need of a surrogate is depending on and soliciting a notion of female physicality that she herself has spent much of her life evading, perhaps even condemning. —  City Journal
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  1. Middle English, from Latin surrogātus, past participle of surrogāre, to substitute, variant of subrogāre; see subrogate.

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  1. from Latin surrogatus, past participle of surrogare (later Italian surrogare = Spanish Portuguese subrogar = French subroger), put in another's place, substitute, from sub, under, + rogare, ask: see rogation. Cf. subrogate.
  2. See surrogate, v.
 

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