Definitions for collateral

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collateral col·lat·er·al

Spelling: [kuh-lat-er-uh l]

IPA: /kəˈlæt ər əl/

Collateral is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 390 anagrams from letters in collateral (aacelllort).

Definitions for collateral

noun

1. security pledged for the payment of a loan:
2. Anatomy. a subordinate or accessory part. a side branch, as of a blood vessel or nerve. collateral circulation.
3. a relative descended from the same stock, but in a different line.

adjective

1. accompanying; auxiliary:
2. additional; confirming:
3. secured by collateral:
4. aside from the main subject, course, etc.; secondary:
5. descended from the same stock, but in a different line; not lineal:
6. pertaining to those so descended.
7. situated at the side:
8. situated or running side by side; parallel:
9. Botany. standing side by side.

Origin of collateral

1350-1400; Middle English (Anglo-French) Medieval Latin collaterālis, equivalent to col- col-¹ + laterālis lateral

Examples for collateral

This can cause women to end up as collateral, even when they themselves have committed no wrong.

The euphemism of “collateral damage” comes with that package.

You offer your daughter, as security for the loan; he accepts the collateral!

Then here is indirect heredity, that of the collateral branches.

The truth of his statements cannot be established by any collateral evidence.

The collateral effects, Drucker argues, show how imprisonment, human rights, and public health are related.

In 2008, it was looking at a death spiral: cut credit ratings, claims on the policies, and collateral calls.

Horace had been playing poker with a mortician, who had put the car up as collateral.

Both testimonies are unsupported by any collateral evidence.

I am to be the collateral for a loan which you are to secure from him.