collateral
IPA: kʌɫˈætɝʌɫ
noun
- (finance) A security or guarantee (usually an asset) pledged for the repayment of a loan if one cannot procure enough funds to repay.
- (now rare, genealogy) A collateral (not linear) family member.
- (anatomy) A branch of a bodily part or system of organs.
- (marketing) Printed materials or content of electronic media used to enhance sales of products (short form of collateral material).
- (anatomy) A thinner blood vessel providing an alternate route to blood flow in case the main vessel becomes occluded.
- (archaic) A contemporary or rival.
adjective
- Parallel, along the same vein, side by side.
- Corresponding; accompanying, concomitant.
- Being aside from the main subject, target, or goal.
- (genealogy) Of an indirect ancestral relationship, as opposed to lineal descendency.
- (finance) Relating to a collateral in the sense of an obligation or security.
- (finance) Expensive to the extent of being paid through a loan.
- Coming or directed along the side.
- Acting in an indirect way.
- (biology, of a vascular bundle) Having the phloem and xylem adjacent.
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Examples of "collateral" in Sentences
- Defeasance is the substitution of collateral.
- The securities serve as collateral for the loan.
- This is to lessen the amount of collateral damage.
- As the collateral damage rises, the colony is evacuated.
- They are neither collateral nor consanguineous relatives.
- Collateral mistakes will not afford the right of rescission.
- Here the underlying asset is used as collateral for the loan.
- That would protect the project without the collateral damage.
- The maximum amount of the loan is determined by the collateral.
- The collateral should provide sufficient protection to the bank.
- The term collateral damage was code for an even more chilling outcome.
- DAVIS: Well, I think people understand what the term collateral damage means now.
- The term collateral or collateral-level is used to describe material that is classified, but not under a compartmented control system.
- Schmidt, on the other hand, never used the term collateral damage -- or any similar term, because that would have completely undermined her fairy tale of righteous indignation.
- I am sick of the term collateral damage when it comes to their lives being taken and when it pertains to Americans who are killed through acts of terror and hate, we label them victims.
- President Bush, the Iraqi people are not collateral damage they are victims yahooBuzzArticleHeadline = 'President Bush, the Iraqi people are not collateral damage they are victims'; yahooBuzzArticleSummary = 'Article: I am sick of the term collateral damage when it comes to their lives being taken and when it pertains to Americans who are killed through acts of terror and hate, we label them victims.
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