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▸ noun:  A substitute (usually of a person, position or role).
▸ noun:  A person or animal that acts as a substitute for the social or pastoral role of another, such as a surrogate parent.
▸ noun:  (chiefly British) A deputy for a bishop in granting licences for marriage.
▸ noun:  (US, politics) A politician or person of influence campaigning for a presidential candidate.
▸ noun:  (US law) A judicial officer of limited jurisdiction, who administers matters of probate and intestate succession and, in some cases, adoptions.
▸ noun:  (computing) Any of a range of Unicode codepoints which are used in pairs in UTF-16 to represent characters beyond the Basic Multilingual Plane.
▸ noun:  (economics) An ersatz good.
▸ adjective:  Of, concerning, relating to or acting as a substitute.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To replace or substitute something with something else; to appoint a successor.
▸ noun:  (databases) Ellipsis of surrogate key. [(databases) A unique identifier for an entity or object, not derived from application data.]

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