Definition of "subrogate" []

• To substitute (one person) for another. (verb-transitive)

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• "Kobo's policy cannot subrogate the copyright rules held by publishers and authors."
• "Not to mention that they don't see as a brewery that's willing to subrogate themselves to a larger power as containing the ideals necessary to truly run a "craft" in the sense of "artisan" brewery."
• "For the last six months, after settling with both insurers, now my health insurer, APWU, TheAmerican Postal Workers UnionHeath Planwants to subrogate against me for the cost of two serious neck surgeries."