Adoptive
Part of speech: adjective
Definition: Related through adoption; more generally, relating to adoption.
Surrogate
Part of speech: verb
Definition: To replace or substitute something with something else; appoint a successor.
Part of speech: adjective
Definition: Of, concerning, relating to or acting as a substitute.
Part of speech: noun
Definition: A substitute (usually of a person, position or role).A person or animal that acts as a substitute for the social or pastoral role of another, such as a surrogate mother.A deputy for a bishop in granting licences for marriage.A judicial officer of limited jurisdiction, who administers matters of probate and intestate succession and, in some cases, adoptions.A surrogate or surrogate key is a unique identifier for either an entity in the modeled world or an object in the database.
Example sentence: For me, and maybe for many religious kids of the '60s, the church lost relevance the more it became a surrogate in the movement for social and political change.