surrogate
sustituto
definition
noun
she was regarded as the surrogate for the governor during his final illness
a substitute, especially a person deputizing for another in a specific role or office.
translation of 'surrogate'
noun
vicario,
sucedáneo,
sustituto,
substituto,
suplente
adjective
sucedáneo,
sustituto,
suplente
example
In an ordinary presidential election, the winner enjoys the right to call the shots on policy as the political 'surrogate' for the electoral majority.
The sequence-structure distance can be interpreted as a 'surrogate' for the difference in energies between an ancestral and a descendant protein.
she was regarded as the 'surrogate' for the governor during his final illness
Some Balts hoped that, if and when they joined the EU, it would be a 'surrogate' for a formal military alliance.
The road, both a participant in and a generator of vistas, becomes a 'surrogate' for the human presence.
Before enrollment in the study, each patient or the patient's designated healthcare 'surrogate' provided written informed consent.
In representing American economic interests in the absence of a tangible American presence, Fort Union was a 'surrogate' for federal authority.
Discuss the patient's need to make advance directives and to identify 'surrogates' for medical and legal decision-making.
Whereas estimator 'surrogates' , they argue, are subject to empirical justification, true surrogates are still dependent on convention.
Outcome 'surrogates' must be carefully validated to avoid misleading results.
A written informed consent was obtained from patients' 'surrogates' after describing the nature and the purpose of the study.
In contrast to true surrogates, estimator 'surrogates' have true surrogates as their intended objects of representation.
Not quite useful as measurements of scale, they could be understood to serve as 'surrogates' for her own presence in the cinema of daily life.
People tend to project disgust properties onto groups of people in their own society who come to figure as 'surrogates' for people's anxieties about their own animality.
In contrast, in the local strategy, some biodiversity 'surrogates' may not achieve their target.
Like language, these photographs are 'surrogates' for reality, full of meaning but incomplete in and of themselves.
It's experts who can inspect, audit, and review, acting as 'surrogates' for the importing party.
Explorers became the conventional heroes of colonial Australia, 'surrogates' for the warriors Australia did not have.
In addition, a modified version of the portfolio traveled to sixteen venues between 1935 and 1937, with the photographs serving as 'surrogates' for the objects themselves.
The use of personal anecdotes about a few hundred students and a secretary as 'surrogates' for the world economy disappointed.
Using outcome 'surrogates' can decrease both study duration and sample size.
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