English-Portuguese translations for surrogate

• substituto
  Fala-se do reforço das instituições da UE e, particularmente, deste Parlamento, como substituto das democracias nacionais, naturalmente. It is a question of developing the EU' s institutions and, in particular of course, this Parliament as a surrogate for the national democracies.

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