Dictionary Definition
collateral adj
1 descended from a common ancestor but through
different lines; "cousins are collateral relatives"; "an indirect
descendant of the Stuarts" [syn: indirect] [ant: lineal]
2 serving to support or corroborate; "collateral
evidence" [syn: confirmative, confirming, confirmatory, corroborative, corroboratory, substantiating, substantiative, validating, validatory, verificatory, verifying]
3 accompaniment to something else; "collateral
target damage from a bombing run"
4 situated or running side by side; "collateral
ridges of mountains" n : a security pledged for the repayment of a
loan
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Pronunciation
- /kəˈlætəɹəl/, /k@"l
Extensive Definition
Collateral may refer
to:
- Collateral (finance) in finance means a security or guarantee (usually an asset) pledged for the repayment of a loan if one cannot procure enough funds to repay. Can also be an exchange for voting rights.
- Collateral (film), a 2004 film starring Tom Cruise and Jamie Foxx.
See also
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
accessory, accident, accidental, accompanying, addendum, addition, additional, adjunct, adscititious, adventitious, affiliate, affiliated, agnate, agreeing, akin, aligned, allied, an, analogous, ancestry, ancillary, another, appendage, appurtenance, appurtenant, ascititious, associate, associated, attendant, attending, auxiliary, avuncular, blood, blood relation, blood
relative, bound, bracketed, casual, caution, caution money, circumstantial, clansman, closely related,
coetaneous, coeternal, coeval, coexistent, coexisting, coextending, coextensive, cognate, coincident, coinstantaneous,
collateral relative, collateral security, combined, coming, concomitant, concurrent, congeneric, conjoint, conjugate, connected, connections, consanguine, consanguinean, consanguineous, contemporaneous,
contemporary,
conterminous,
contingency,
contingent, contributory, correlated, correlative, coterminous, coupled, debris, deposit, distaff side, distant
relation, distantly related, enate, equal, equidistant, equispaced, even, eventual, extra, family, farther, fellow, final, flesh, flesh and blood, folks, forfeit, fortuitous, foster, fresh, further, garbage, german, germane, happenstance, implicated, incidental, indirect, inessential, interlinked, interlocked, interrelated, involved, isochronal, isochronous, joined, joint, junk, kelter, kin, kindred, kinfolk, kinnery, kinsfolk, kinsman, kinsmen, kinswoman, kith and kin,
knotted, last, lined up, linked, litter, margin, matrilateral, matrilineal, matroclinous, mere chance,
more, mutual, near relation, new, next of kin, nonconvergent, nondivergent, nonessential, not-self,
novercal, of that ilk,
of that kind, of the blood, offal, other, paired, parallel, parallelepipedal,
parallelinervate,
paralleling,
parallelodrome,
parallelogrammatic,
parallelogrammic,
parallelotropic,
patrilateral,
patrilineal,
patroclinous,
people, plus, posterity, related, relations, relatives, riffraff, rubbish, secondary, sib, sibling, simultaneous, spare, spear kin, spear side,
spindle kin, spindle side, spliced, stake, subsidiary, superadded, superaddition, superfluous, supernumerary, supervenient, supplement, supplemental, supplementary, surplus, sword side, tied, tribesman, twin, twinned, ulterior, ultimate, unessential, unison, unisonous, uterine, uterine kin, wed, wedded, yoked