Relationships

• Surrogate pregnancy, an arrangement for a woman to carry and give birth to a child who will be raised by others
• Sex surrogate, in sexual therapy
• Surrogate marriage
  Surrogate marriage
  A surrogate marriage describes the arrangement where a woman is infertile or dies young and her family substitutes another woman to bear children for the husband.-Cultural roots:Surrogate marriages exist in some African cultures, such as the Zulu culture ....
  
  , a custom in African culture

Economics

• Ersatz
  Ersatz
  Ersatz means 'substituting for, and typically inferior in quality to', e.g. 'chicory is ersatz coffee'. It is a German word literally meaning substitute or replacement...
  
  , an artificial replacement differing in kind from and inferior in quality to what it replaces.

Arts

• Author surrogate
  Author surrogate
  As a literary technique, an author surrogate is a fictional character who expresses the ideas, questions, personality and morality of the author...
  
   or audience surrogate
  Audience surrogate
  In the study of literature, an audience surrogate is a fictional character with whom the audience can identify, or who expresses the questions and confusion of the audience...
  
  , reciprocal literary techniques
• The Surrogates
  The Surrogates
  The Surrogates is a five-issue comic book limited series written by Robert Venditti, drawn by Brett Weldele, and published by Top Shelf Productions from 2005 to 2006...
  
  , a comic book series
• Surrogates (film), a 2009 film based on the comic book series
• The Surrogate (1995 film)
  The Surrogate (1995 film)
  The Surrogate is a 1995 television movie drama directed by Jan Egleson and Raymond Hartung and aired on ABC. The movie had a limited VHS release in the United Kingdom in April 1996. It has also been released on video in Asia.-Plot:...
  
  , a TV movie starring Alyssa Milano
• "Surro-Gate
  Surro-Gate
  "Surro-Gate" is the seventeenth episode of the third season of American Dad!. It originally aired on December 2, 2007. This episode mainly centers around Stan, who hears the news that Greg and Terry are having plans of starting a family through in vitro fertilization. Stan is at first takes this as...
  
  ", an episode of the cartoon series American Dad!
• "The Surrogate" (The Outer Limits)
  The Surrogate (The Outer Limits)
  "The Surrogate" is an episode of The Outer Limits television show. It first aired during the seventh season.-Opening narration:-Plot:...
  
  , an episode of the 1990s version of The Outer Limits series
• Surrogate Paintings, a series by American artist Allan McCollum
  Allan McCollum
  Allan McCollum is a contemporary American artist who was born in Los Angeles, California in 1944, and now lives and works in New York City. He has spent over forty years exploring how objects achieve public and personal meaning in a world constituted in mass production, focusing most recently on...
  
  

Science and technology

• Surrogate model
  Surrogate model
  Most engineering design problems require experiments and/or simulations to evaluate design objective and constraint functions as function of design variables. For example, in order to find the optimal airfoil shape for an aircraft wing, an engineer simulates the air flow around the wing for...
  
  , used in engineering design
• Surrogate endpoint
  Surrogate endpoint
  In clinical trials, a surrogate endpoint is a measure of effect of a certain treatment that may correlate with a real clinical endpoint but doesn't necessarily have a guaranteed relationship...
  
  , a measure of effect in clinical trials
• Surrogate key
  Surrogate key
  A surrogate key in a database is a unique identifier for either an entity in the modeled world or an object in the database. The surrogate key is not derived from application data.- Definition :There are at least two definitions of a surrogate:...
  
  , a unique database identification key
• Surrogate proxy, a type of server network setup
• Surrogate character, any of a range of Unicode
  Unicode
  Unicode is a computing industry standard for the consistent encoding, representation and handling of text expressed in most of the world's writing systems...
  
   codepoints which are used in pairs in UTF-16 to represent characters beyond the Basic Multilingual Plane.

Other uses

• Surrogate (clergy)
  Surrogate (clergy)
  Surrogate , a deputy of a bishop or an ecclesiastical judge, acting in the absence of his principal and strictly bound by the authority of the latter....
  
  , a deputy of a bishop or ecclesiastical judge
• Surrogate Court
  Surrogate Court
  A probate court is a specialized court that deals with matters of probate and the administration of estates....
  
  , a court primarily concerned with the distribution of assets of a decedent
• Surrogate alcohol
  Surrogate alcohol
  Surrogate alcohol is a term for any substance containing ethanol that is consumed but is not meant for human consumption. Most people turn to these as a last resort either out of desperation or being unable to afford consumable alcoholic beverages....
  
  , a substance containing alcohol that is consumed, though it is not meant for human consumption