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Syllable division derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
subrogate is a verb meaning "substitute one creditor for another, as in the case where an insurance company sues the person who caused an accident for the insured". It carries one recorded sense.
substitute one creditor for another, as in the case where an insurance company sues the person who caused an accident for the insured
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for subrogate come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.