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SUBROGATE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does subrogate mean? 

SUBROGATE (verb)
  The verb SUBROGATE has 1 sense:

1. substitute one creditor for another, as in the case where an insurance company sues the person who caused an accident for the insuredplay

  Familiarity information: SUBROGATE used as a verb is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


SUBROGATE (verb)

 Conjugation: 
Present simple: I / you / we / they subrogate  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation ... he / she / it subrogates  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
Past simple: subrogated  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
Past participle: subrogated  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
-ing form: subrogating  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation


Sense 1

Meaning:

Substitute one creditor for another, as in the case where an insurance company sues the person who caused an accident for the insured

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Hypernyms (to "subrogate" is one way to...):

exchange; interchange; replace; substitute (put in the place of another; switch seemingly equivalent items)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s somebody

Derivation:

subrogation ((law) the act of substituting of one creditor for another)


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