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Collateral   /kəlˈætərəl/   Listen
Collateral

noun
1.
A security pledged for the repayment of a loan.
adjective
1.
Descended from a common ancestor but through different lines.  Synonym: indirect.  "An indirect descendant of the Stuarts"
2.
Serving to support or corroborate.  Synonyms: confirmative, confirmatory, confirming, corroborative, corroboratory, substantiating, substantiative, validating, validatory, verificatory, verifying.
3.
Accompany, concomitant.
4.
Situated or running side by side.



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"Collateral" Quotes from Famous Books



... the Exchange that morning would have brought on a complete collapse in prices; a general insolvency of brokerage houses would have forced the suspension of all business; the banks, holding millions of unsaleable collateral, would have become involved; many big institutions would have failed and a run on savings banks would have begun. It is idle to speculate upon what the final outcome might have been. Suffice it to say that these grave consequences were prevented in the nick of time by the prompt and determined ...
— The New York Stock Exchange in the Crisis of 1914 • Henry George Stebbins Noble
... and the Topical Method of Historical Study; Historical Literature and Authorities; Books for Collateral Reading. By Professor ...
— A Brief History of the English Language and Literature, Vol. 2 (of 2) • John Miller Dow Meiklejohn
... She shook her docked head at it. "You're the police but I am a business man. If you make the loan, you must keep the collateral." ...
— The Paliser case • Edgar Saltus
... what might be called only collateral proof, I did agree with the old gentleman that it was very strong; at all events, it was sufficient for him, and he claimed Bessy as his child. Had he claimed her to take her away, I might have disputed it; but ...
— Poor Jack • Frederick Marryat
... Happily, a work collateral to the one which I have here merely begun, will, I have reason to hope, be carried to a high degree of perfection in the forthcoming monographs on the exhaustless ceramic collections of the United States National Museum by Mr. William H. Holmes. This author and artist will approach ...
— A Study of Pueblo Pottery as Illustrative of Zuni Culture Growth. • Frank Hamilton Cushing


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