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Definition of 'Collateral'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (n.) collateral
security pledged for the payment of a loan.

2.  collateral
Anat.

3.  collateral
a subordinate or accessory part.

4.  collateral
a side branch, as of a blood vessel or nerve.

5. (adj.) collateral
accompanying; auxiliary:
collateral aid.

6.  collateral
additional; confirming:
collateral evidence.

7.  collateral
secured by collateral.

8.  collateral
secondary or incidental.

9.  collateral
(of a relative) descended from the same stock, but in a different line.

10.  collateral
situated at the side.

11.  collateral
running side by side; parallel.

Etymology: (1350–1400; ME (< AF) < ML collaterālis= L col-col -¹+laterālislateral)

Definition of 'Collateral'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (adj) collateral
a security pledged for the repayment of a loan

2. (adj) collateral, indirect
descended from a common ancestor but through different lines
"cousins are collateral relatives"; "an indirect descendant of the Stuarts"

3. (adj) collateral, confirmative, confirming, confirmatory, corroborative, corroboratory, substantiating, substantiative, validating, validatory, verificatory, verifying
serving to support or corroborate
"collateral evidence"

4. (adj) collateral
accompany, concomitant
"collateral target damage from a bombing run"

5. (adj) collateral
situated or running side by side
"collateral ridges of mountains"

Definition of 'Collateral'

Webster Dictionary

1. (adj) Collateral
coming from, being on, or directed toward, the side; as, collateral pressure

2. (adj) Collateral
acting in an indirect way

3. (adj) Collateral
related to, but not strictly a part of, the main thing or matter under consideration; hence, subordinate; not chief or principal; as, collateral interest; collateral issues

4. (adj) Collateral
tending toward the same conclusion or result as something else; additional; as, collateral evidence

5. (adj) Collateral
descending from the same stock or ancestor, but not in the same line or branch or one from the other; -- opposed to lineal

6. (noun) Collateral
a collateral relative

7. (noun) Collateral
collateral security; that which is pledged or deposited as collateral security

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