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SUBROGATE

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 insured

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

Dictionary entry details

• SUBROGATE (verb)

Sense 1

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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...):

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

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s somebody

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