English-Dutch translations for surrogate

• plaatsvervanger
• surrogaat
  Dit Pact is enkel een slecht surrogaat voor het ontbrekend economisch beleid en groeibeleid. It is just a poor surrogate for a common economic and growth policy which does not exist.
  Er wordt gesproken over het opbouwen van de instellingen van de EU en in het bijzonder natuurlijk dit Parlement, als een surrogaat voor de nationale democratieën. It is a question of developing the EU' s institutions and, in particular of course, this Parliament as a surrogate for the national democracies.
• vervanger

Definition of surrogate

• A substitute (usually of a person, position or role
• A person or animal that acts as a substitute for the social or pastoral role of another, such as a surrogate mother
• A politician or person of influence campaigning for a presidential candidate
• Any of a range of Unicode codepoints which are used in pairs in UTF-16 to represent characters beyond the Basic Multilingual Plane
• Of, concerning, relating to or acting as a substitute
• To replace or substitute something with something else; appoint a successor

Examples

• A mixture of horseradish and mustard often serves as a surrogate for wasabi

Related words

• surrogate mother
• surrogate key
• surrogate criterion
• surrogate endpoint
• surrogate marker
• surrogate partner
• surrogate war
• sexual surrogate