collateral
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Definitions ofcollateral
- A security or guarantee (usually an asset) pledged for the repayment of a loan if one cannot procure enough funds to repay.
Synonyms: pledge
- (genealogy) A collateral (not linear) family member.
- A branch of a bodily part or system of organs.
Example: "Besides the arteries blood streams through numerous veins we call collaterals."
- 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.
- Parallel, along the same vein, side by side.
- Corresponding; accompanying, concomitant.
- Being aside from the main subject, target, or goal.
Synonyms: ancillary, subordinate, tangential
Example: "Although not a direct cause, the border skirmish was certainly a collateral incitement for the war."
- (genealogy) Of an indirect ancestral relationship, as opposed to lineal descendency.
Example: "Uncles, aunts, cousins, nephews and nieces are collateral relatives."
- 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.
Example: "collateral pressure"
- Acting in an indirect way.
- (of a vascular bundle) Having the phloem and xylem adjacent.
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