What is another word for surrogates?

Pronunciation: [sˈʌɹəɡˌe͡ɪts] (IPA)

Surrogates are individuals or objects that act as replacements or substitutes for someone or something else. Synonyms for the word "surrogates" include substitutes, stand-ins, surrogacies, replaceable, subordinates, delegates, and alternates. Surrogates can be used in a variety of contexts, such as in politics, where a surrogate might speak on behalf of a political candidate. Surrogacy, on the other hand, refers specifically to the process of carrying and giving birth to a child for someone else, usually a couple who cannot conceive on their own. While surrogacy is a well-known phenomenon, surrogates and their synonyms can also refer to a wide range of things that serve as proxies for other entities.

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Usage examples for Surrogates

To invert this, to pretend exhibiting your qualifications, in place of these their surrogates, and assignates, and monnoie de confiance, is simply to resemble the crazy philosophers in Gulliver's Travels, who, for social converse, instead of names of things, brought the things themselves tied up in a bag; it is, indeed, plainly as much as trying to fall back into the barbarous times of trade by barter, when the Romans, instead of the figured cattle on their leather money, drove forth the beeves themselves.
"The Campaner Thal and Other Writings"
Jean Paul Friedrich Richter
But when the pearl-ball was provided with the spiral, painted red, and given flames to represent its power of emitting light and shining by night, the fact of the spiral ornamentation and of the pearl being one of the surrogates of the thunder-weapon was rationalized into an identification of the ball with thunder and the light it was emitting as lightning.
"The Evolution of the Dragon"
G. Elliot Smith
The cowry and its surrogates were supposed to be potent to confer fertility on maidens; and it became the practice for growing girls to wear a girdle on which to suspend the shells as near as possible to the organ their magic was supposed to stimulate.
"The Evolution of the Dragon"
G. Elliot Smith

Famous quotes with Surrogates

  • I'm at that point in my life where I definitely want to get married soon. I've got my dogs as surrogates, but I'm ready for kids.
    Michael Bay
  • If Senator Kerry understands the nature of this threat and the need to take on terror, then he should immediately repudiate these troubling comments, and stop all efforts on behalf of his surrogates to blame America for these attacks.
    Marc Racicot
  • "Progress" is for the convinced ochlocrats a consoling Utopia of madly increased comfort and technicism. This charming but dull vision was always the pseudoreligious consolation of millions of ecstatic believers in ochlocracy and in the relative perfection and wisdom of Mr. and Mrs. Averageman. Utopias in general are surrogates for heaven; they give a meager solace to the individual that his sufferings and endeavors may enable future generations to enter the chiliastic paradise. Communism works in a similar way. Its millennium is almost the same as that of ochlocracy. The Millennium of Lenin, the Millennium of Bellamy, the Millennium as represented in H. G. Wells's, "Of Things to Come," the Millennium of Adolf Hitler and Henry Ford — they are all basically the same; they often differ in their means to attain it but they all agree in the point of technical perfection and the classless or at least totally homogeneous society without grudge or envy.
    H. G. Wells

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