All surrogate synonyms
sur·ro·gate
S s adj surrogate
- acting — Acting is the activity or profession of performing in plays or films.
- alternative — If one thing is an alternative to another, the first can be found, used, or done instead of the second.
- deputed — to appoint as one's substitute, representative, or agent.
- dummiest — a representation or copy of something, as for displaying to indicate appearance: a display of lipstick dummies made of colored plastic.
noun surrogate
- deputy — A deputy is the second most important person in an organization such as a business or government department. Someone's deputy often acts on their behalf when they are not there.
- fill-in — a person or thing that fills in, as a substitute, replacement, or insertion: The company used a fill-in for workers on vacation.
- ghost writer — a person who writes one or numerous speeches, books, articles, etc., for another person who is named as or presumed to be the author.
- change — If there is a change in something, it becomes different.
- backup — Backup consists of extra equipment, resources, or people that you can get help or support from if necessary.
- ghostwriter — A person whose job it is to write material for someone else who is the named author.
- father figure — a man embodying or seeming to embody the qualities of an idealized conception of the male parent, eliciting from others the emotional responses that a child typically has toward its father.
- operatives — Plural form of operative.
- dogcatcher — a person employed by a municipal pound, humane society, or the like, to find and impound stray or homeless dogs, cats, etc.
- agent — A chemical that has a particular effect or is used for a particular purpose can be referred to as a particular kind of agent.
- member of congress — law: elected representative
- councilor — A councilor is a member of a local council.
- catchpole — (in medieval England) a sheriff's officer who arrested debtors
- alternate — When you alternate two things, you keep using one then the other. When one thing alternates with another, the first regularly occurs after the other.
- mover — a person or thing that moves.
- assignee — a person to whom some right, interest, or property is transferred
- functionary — a person who functions in a specified capacity, especially in government service; an official: civil servants, bureaucrats, and other functionaries.
- locum — locum tenens.
- band-aid — A Band-Aid is a small piece of sticky tape that you use to cover small cuts or wounds on your body.
- locum tenens — a temporary substitute, especially for a doctor or member of the clergy.
- expedience — (uncountable) The quality of being fit or suitable to effect some desired end or the purpose intended; propriety or advisability under the particular circumstances of a case.
- quickwittedness — The state or condition of being quickwitted.
- handler — a person or thing that handles.
- changeling — A changeling is a child who was put in the place of another child when they were both babies. In stories changelings were often taken or left by fairies.
- delegate — A delegate is a person who is chosen to vote or make decisions on behalf of a group of other people, especially at a conference or a meeting.