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col·lat·er·al

(kə-lăt′ər-əl)

adj.

1. Situated or running side by side; parallel.

2. Coinciding in tendency or effect; concomitant or accompanying.

3. Serving to support or corroborate: collateral evidence.

4. Of a secondary nature; subordinate: collateral target damage from a bombing run.

5. Of, relating to, or guaranteed by a security pledged against the performance of an obligation: a collateral loan.

6. Having an ancestor in common but descended from a different line.

1. Property acceptable as security for a loan or other obligation.

2. A collateral relative.

[Middle English, from Medieval Latin collaterālis : Latin com-, com- + Latin latus, later-, side.]

col·lat′er·al·ly adv.

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collateral

(kɒˈlætərəl; kə-)

1. (Banking & Finance)

a. security pledged for the repayment of a loan

b. (as modifier): a collateral loan.

2. (Biology) a person, animal, or plant descended from the same ancestor as another but through a different line

adj

3. situated or running side by side

4. (Biology) descended from a common ancestor but through different lines

5. (Law) serving to support or corroborate

6. aside from the main issue

7. uniting in tendency

[C14: from Medieval Latin collaterālis, from Latin com- together + laterālis of the side, from latus side]

colˈlaterally adv

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col•lat•er•al

(kəˈlæt ər əl)

n.

1. security pledged for the payment of a loan.

2. Anat.

a. a subordinate or accessory part.

b. a side branch, as of a blood vessel or nerve.

adj.

3. accompanying; auxiliary: collateral aid.

4. additional; confirming: collateral evidence.

5. secured by collateral.

6. secondary or incidental.

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

8. situated at the side.

9. running side by side; parallel.

[1350–1400; Middle English (< Anglo-French) < Medieval Latin collaterālis= Latin col- col-¹ + laterālis lateral]

col•lat′er•al•ly, adv.

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Noun	1.	collateral - a security pledged for the repayment of a loan security interest - any interest in a property that secures the payment of an obligation guaranty, guarantee - a collateral agreement to answer for the debt of another in case that person defaults
Adj.	1.	collateral - descended from a common ancestor but through different lines; "cousins are collateral relatives"; "an indirect descendant of the Stuarts" indirect related - connected by kinship, common origin, or marriage lineal, direct - in a straight unbroken line of descent from parent to child; "lineal ancestors"; "lineal heirs"; "a direct descendant of the king"; "direct heredity"
	2.	collateral - serving to support or corroborate; "collateral evidence" corroborative, corroboratory, substantiating, substantiative, validating, validatory, verificatory, verifying, confirmative, confirmatory, confirming supportive - furnishing support or assistance; "a supportive family network"; "his family was supportive of his attempts to be a writer"
	3.	collateral - accompany, concomitant; "collateral target damage from a bombing run" secondary - being of second rank or importance or value; not direct or immediate; "the stone will be hauled to a secondary crusher"; "a secondary source"; "a secondary issue"; "secondary streams"
	4.	collateral - situated or running side by side; "collateral ridges of mountains" parallel - being everywhere equidistant and not intersecting; "parallel lines never converge"; "concentric circles are parallel"; "dancers in two parallel rows"

collateral

noun security, guarantee, deposit, assurance, surety, pledge Many people here cannot borrow from banks because they lack collateral.

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collateral

adjective

1. Lying in the same plane and not intersecting:

parallel.

Idiom: side by side.

2. Giving or able to give help or support:

accessory, ancillary, assistant, auxiliary, contributory, subsidiary, supportive.

3. In a position of subordination:

dependent, subject, subordinate, subservient.

Translations

kolaterálzajištěnízástava

panttivakuus

カタログパンフレット傍系の傍系縁者の傍系親族の

коллатеральный коллатераль

pant

collateral

[kɒˈlætərəl]

A. N

1. (Fin) → garantía f subsidiaria

2. (= person) → colateral mf

B. CPD collateral loan N → préstamo m colateral
collateral security N → garantía f colateral

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collateral

[kəˈlæt^ərəl kɒˈlæt^ərəl] n → nantissement mcollateral damage n → dommages mpl collatéraux

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

collateral

adj

(= connected but secondary) evidence, questions etc → zusätzlich, Zusatz-; events → Begleit-

(= parallel, side by side) states etc → nebeneinanderliegend; (fig) aims etc → Hand in Hand gehend

descent, branch of family → seitlich, kollateral (spec)

(Fin) security → zusätzlich

n (Fin) → (zusätzliche) Sicherheit

collateral

collateral damage

n (Mil, Pol) → Kollateralschaden m

collateral loan

n (Fin) → Lombardkredit m, → Lombarddarlehen nt

collateral security

n (Fin) → Nebensicherheit f, → Nebenbürgschaft f

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collateral

[kɒˈlæt/ər/əl] n (Fin) → garanzia

col·lat·er·al

a. colateral.

1. indirecto-a, subsidiario-a o accesorio-a a la cuestión principal;

2. una rama subsidiaria del axón de un nervio o vaso sanguíneo;

adv. al lado;

a. accesorio-a.

collateral

adj colateral

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And he knew that the banks did not want his collateral which they held.

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I have, therefore, availed myself occasionally of collateral lights supplied by the published journals of other travellers who have visited the scenes described: such as Messrs.

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Like all sea-going ship carpenters, and more especially those belonging to whaling vessels, he was, to a certain off-handed, practical extent, alike experienced in numerous trades and callings collateral to his own; the carpenter's pursuit being the ancient and outbranching trunk of all those numerous handicrafts which more or less have to do with wood as an auxiliary material.

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He is liable for direct damage both to your chimneys and any collateral damage caused by fall of bricks into garden, etc., etc.

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In the second place, it has, on another occasion, been shown that the federal legislature will not only be restrained by its dependence on its people, as other legislative bodies are, but that it will be, moreover, watched and controlled by the several collateral legislatures, which other legislative bodies are not.

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"DEAR SIR, - We notice that your account to-day stands 119,000 pounds overdrawn, against which we hold as collateral security shares in the Bekwando Land Company to the value of 150,000 pounds.

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I kept half a dozen membership cards working in the free library and did an immense amount of collateral reading.

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She thought that the two primeval pups that Noah chased into the ark were but a collateral branch of my ancestors.

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"Name of any collateral or remote branch of your ladyship's family?"

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Now the source of this nobility was, of course, the poet, and his immediate descendants, therefore, were invested with greater luster than the collateral branches.

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I wish collateral like them came into my loan offices these days.

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Were it worth the enquiry, it would be found that more than a just proportion of the renowned names of the mother- country are, at this hour, to be found in her ci-devant colonies; and it is a fact well known to the few who have wasted sufficient time to become the masters of so unimportant a subject, that the direct descendants of many a failing line, which the policy of England has seen fit to sustain by collateral supporters, are now discharging the simple duties of citizens in the bosom of this republic.