collateral
Pronunciation: /kəˈlætəɹəl/
The English word “collateral” has 16 meanings listed here.
adjective
- Parallel, in the same vein, side by side.
- Corresponding; accompanying, concomitant.
- Being aside from the main subject, target, or goal.
- Of an indirect ancestral relationship, as opposed to lineal descendency.
- Relating to a collateral in the sense of an obligation or security.
- Expensive to the extent of being paid through a loan.
- Coming or directed along the side.
- Acting in an indirect way.
- Having the phloem and xylem adjacent.
noun
- A security or guarantee (usually an asset) pledged for the repayment of a loan if one cannot procure enough funds to repay.
- A collateral (not linear) family member.
- A branch of a bodily part or system of organs.
- Printed materials or content of electronic media used to enhance sales of products (short form of collateral material).
- A thinner blood vessel providing an alternate route to blood flow in case the main vessel becomes occluded.
- A contemporary or rival.
- An instance of hitting two or more targets, often enemy players, with a single shot, usually when they are lined up behind each other.
Etymology
Recorded since c.1378, from Old French, from Medieval Latin collaterālis, from Latin col- (“together with”) (a form of con-) + the stem of latus (“side”). By surface analysis, col- + lateral.
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