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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.
n.
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-)n
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.
adj. a. a subordinate or accessory part.
b. a side branch, as of a blood vessel or nerve.
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 |
Adj. | 1. | collateral - descended from a common ancestor but through different lines; "cousins are collateral relatives"; "an indirect descendant of the Stuarts" related - connected by kinship, common origin, or marriage |
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" |
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collateral
noun security, guarantee, deposit, assurance, surety, pledge Many people here cannot borrow from banks because they lack collateral.
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collateral
adjective1. Lying in the same plane and not intersecting:
Idiom: side by side.
2. Giving or able to give help or support:
3. In a position of subordination:
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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
pant
Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005
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collateral
adj
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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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.
English-Spanish Medical Dictionary © Farlex 2012
collateral
adj colateralEnglish-Spanish/Spanish-English Medical Dictionary Copyright © 2006 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved.