Surrogate /(?)/

Sur·ro·gate

Surrogate

n.
  1. A deputy; a delegate; a substitute.
  2. The deputy of an ecclesiastical judge, most commonly of a bishop or his chancellor, especially a deputy who grants marriage licenses. [Eng.]
  3. In some States of the United States, an officer who presides over the probate of wills and testaments and yield the settlement of estates.
  4. a surrogate mother.

Surrogate

v. t.
  1. To put in the place of another; to substitute. [R.]