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collateral

[kuh-lat-er-uh

Origin

noun

security pledged for the payment of a loan: He gave the bank some stocks and bonds as collateral for the money he borrowed.

Anatomy.

a subordinate or accessory part.

a side branch, as of a blood vessel or nerve.

collateral circulation.

a relative descended from the same stock, but in a different line.

adjective

accompanying; auxiliary: He received a scholarship and collateral aid.

additional; confirming: collateral evidence; collateral security.

secured by collateral: a collateral loan.

aside from the main subject, course, etc.; secondary: These accomplishments are merely collateral to his primary goal.

descended from the same stock, but in a different line; not lineal: A cousin is a collateral relative.

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pertaining to those so descended.

10.

situated at the side: a collateral wing of a house.

11.

situated or running side by side; parallel: collateral ridges of mountains.

12.

Botany. standing side by side.

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a glandular organ functioning in the secretion of bile and metabolic processes such as converting sugars located in the upper right abdominal cavity

a hollow space within the body, an organ or a bone

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Origin:
1350–1400; Middle English (< Anglo-French ) < Medieval Latin collaterālis, equivalent to col- col-¹ + laterālis lateral

Related forms

col·lat·er·al·i·ty

[koh-lat-uh-ral-i-tee] , col·lat·er·al·ness, noun

col·lat·er·al·ly, adverb

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World English Dictionary

collateral (kɒˈlætərəl, kə-)

—n
1.	a. security pledged for the repayment of a loan
	b. (as modifier): a collateral loan
2.	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.	descended from a common ancestor but through different lines
5.	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]

col'laterally

—*adv*

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Word Origin & History

collateral

late 14c., "accompanying," also "descended from the same stock," from O.Fr. collateral, from M.L. collateralis "accompanying," lit. "side by side," from L. com- "together" + lateralis "of the side," from latus "a side" (see oblate (n.)). Lit. sense of "parallel, along the

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side of" attested in Eng. from c.1450.

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Medical Dictionary

collateral col·lat·er·al (kə-lāt'ər-əl)
adj.