Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb subrogate

1 sense of subrogate

Sense 1
subrogate -- (substitute one creditor for another, as in the case where an insurance company sues the person who caused an accident for the insured)
       => substitute, replace, interchange, exchange -- (put in the place of another; switch seemingly equivalent items; "the con artist replaced the original with a fake Rembrandt"; "substitute regular milk with fat-free milk"; "synonyms can be interchanged without a changing the context's meaning")