how to pronounce surrogate

/ˈsʌɹ.ə.ɡət/

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surrogate is pronounced in three syllables

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video examples of surrogate pronunciation

An example use of surrogate in a speech by a native speaker of british english:

“… we went to India our surrogate was …”

meaning of surrogate

Surrogate means a person who stands in the place of another.

surrogate frequency in english - C2+ level of CEFR

the word surrogate occurs in english on average 1.6 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for C2+ level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

topics surrogate can be related to

it is hard to perfectly classify words into specific topics since each word can have many context of its use, but our machine-learning models believe that surrogate can be often used in the following areas:

1) business and work;

2) people, society, and culture;