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SUBROGATE
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I. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they subrogate ... he / she / it subrogates
Past simple: subrogated
Past participle: subrogated
-ing form: subrogating
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)
