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Definition: Collateral |
CollateralAdjective1. Descended from a common ancestor but through different lines; "cousins are collateral relatives"; "an indirect descendant of the Stuarts". 2. Serving to support or corroborate; "collateral evidence". 3. Accompaniment to something else; "collateral target damage from a bombing run". 4. Situated or running side by side; "collateral ridges of mountains". Noun1. A security pledged for the repayment of a loan. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "collateral" was first used: sometime around 1378. (references) |
Etymology: Collateral \Col*lat"er*al\, adjective. [from Late Latin expression collateralis; col- lateralis lateral. See Lateral.]. (Websters 1913) |
| Domain | Definition |
Finance | Assets pledged as a guarantee for the repayment of the short-term liquidity loans which credit institutions receive from the central banks, as well as assets received by central banks from credit institutions as part of repurchase operations. Source: European Union. (references) |
| A security put up by someone other than the borrower, either in support of the guarantee or as a third party security in place of the guarantee. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| A)American expression used to describe a security put up by a borrower in addition to this promise repay; b)the precise English definition is a security put up by someone other than the borrower, either in support of the guarantee or as a third party security in place of the guarantee. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| Something of value that is pledged as security for a loan. The lender can repossess the collateral if the loan is not repaid. (references) | |
Law | The term "collateral". . . means not lineal, but upon a parallel or diverging line. The term is used in this sens when referring to heirs who are not lineal descendants for example brothers, sisters, aunts. . . Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: CollateralSynonyms: confirmative (adj), confirmatory (adj), confirming (adj), corroborative (adj), corroboratory (adj), indirect (adj), substantiating (adj), substantiative (adj), validating (adj), validatory (adj), verificatory (adj), verifying (adj). (additional references) |
| Antonym: lineal (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Consanguinity | Adjective: related, akin, consanguineous, of the blood, family, allied, collateral; cognate, agnate, connate; kindred; affiliated; fraternal. |
Evidence | Oral evidence, documentary evidence, hearsay evidence, external evidence, extrinsic evidence, internal evidence, intrinsic evidence, circumstantial evidence, cumulative evidence, ex parte evidence, presumptive evidence, collateral evidence, constructive evidence; proof; (demonstration); evidence in chief. |
Laterality | Adjective: lateral, sidelong; collateral; parietal, flanking, skirting; flanked; sideling. |
Security | Noun: security; guaranty, guarantee; gage, warranty, bond, tie, pledge, plight, mortgage, collateral, debenture, hypothecation, bill of sale, lien, pawn, pignoration; real security; vadium. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | We should've got some collateral from him! (Seinfeld; writing credit: Andreas Lenze; Bea Schmidt) | |
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Ramsey Macdonald | When the late J.P. Morgan was asked what he considered the best bank collateral, he replied, "Character." |
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| Author | Date | Quotation |
Treaty of Versailles | 1919 | Germany undertakes to transfer to the Principal Allied and Associated Powers, within a period of one month from the coming into force of the present Treaty, any sums in gold transferred as pledge or as collateral security to the German Government or its nationals in connection with loans made by them to the Austro-Hungarian Government. (reference) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | Obtaining credit for this sector is very difficult due to high collateral requirements. (references) | |
Some companies, instead of collateral or guarantees, will demand a 30-40% advance payment. (references) | ||
Users are expected to have a well-paying job and/or significant collateral (usually a private home). (references) | ||
Civil Liberties | Iraq | Before traveling abroad, citizens are required to post collateral, which is refundable only upon their return. (references) |
Economic History | Indonesia | These lease holdings can be used as collateral. (references) |
Romania | Thus, assets can be pledged as collateral for loans and as guarantees. (references) | |
Political Economy | DENMARK | Monetary policy is pursued through the Danish Central Bank (Danmarks Nationalbank) which sets the day-to-day interest rate on financial sector entities' current account deposits in the Central Bank and/or offer 14-day transactions where the entities either borrow in the Central Bank against collateral in securities or buy government deposit certificates. (references) |
Trade | Morocco | Moroccan banks generally require high collateral. (references) |
Bolivia | Collateral requirements for all but the most valued clients are very high. (references) | |
Worker Rights | Cambodia | Young children, the majority of them girls, often are "pledged" as collateral for loans by desperately poor parents to brokers or middlemen; the child then is held responsible for repaying the loan and accumulated interest. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | We'll be giving a guarantee, like co-signing a note with good collateral that will cover our risk. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Collateral" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 78.91% of the time. "Collateral" is used about 128 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 78.91% | 101 | 32,488 |
| Noun (singular) | 20.31% | 26 | 68,323 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.78% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 128 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Country | Name |
| USA | Collateral Therapeutics Incorporated |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expressions using "collateral": accept as collateral ♦ Collateral assurance ♦ collateral bonds ♦ Collateral circulation ♦ collateral damage ♦ collateral effects ♦ collateral fraud ♦ collateral heir ♦ collateral investment ♦ Collateral issue ♦ Collateral Ligaments ♦ collateral line ♦ collateral loan ♦ collateral loan Us ♦ collateral relative ♦ collateral security ♦ guarantee in the form of deposits as collateral ♦ imagery collateral ♦ nuclear collateral damage. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "collateral": collateral-commissural. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "collateral"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | shtese (additional, augmentative, excess, extra, relief, subsidiary), paralel (parallel), nga një degë paralele, indirekt (indirect), farefis nga tjetër degë, anësor (fringe, lateral, marginal, peripheral, secondary, side, sidelong, sideways, wing, winger). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | ملازم (attendant, immanent, inherent, innate, inseparable, lieutenant), مباشر (conducting, direct, downright, eve, first hand, forthright, frontal, fulfilling, immediate, lineal, non-stop, plump, point blank, proximate, satisfying, through). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | страничен (adventitious, adventive, aisle, by, circumstantial, exterior, external, incidental, indirect, lateral, marginal, oblique, off, outside, postern, side), успореден (concurrent, parallel), родство не по права линия, косвен (circuitous, circumstantial, implicit, implied, indirect, mediate, oblique, vicarious), второстепенен (accessary, accessory, accidental, by, bye, inessential, lesser, minor, off, second, secondary, side, subordinate, tributary, two bit), допълнителна гаранция. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 抵押 (mortgage, mortgaged, Mortgaging). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | vedlejší (accessory, accidental, adjoining, ancillary, by, extraneous, immaterial, incidental, minor, next, next door, off, secondary, subordinate, subsidiary, supporting, ulterior). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | sikkerhed (safety, security), sideordnet sikkerhed (collateral investment), kollateral, kaution (pledge, security), håndpantsætning (collateral security). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | collateral (collateral investment), collateraal (sib, sibling), zijdelings, verpanding (collateral security, pawning, pledging), pandgeving (collateral security, pawning, pledging), onderpand (pledge, security), inpandgeving (collateral security), borgsom (caution money, deposit, earnest, margin). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | flanka branĉo (collateral branch, side-branch). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | پهلوبه پهلو (Abreast), متوازی (Parallel), هم بر, تضمین (Assurance, Guaranty, Seal, Security, Warranty). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | vakuus (guarantee, security). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | collatéral (collateral relative). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Frisian | sydtûke (collateral branch, side-branch). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | sicherheit (aplomb, assurance, caution, certainty, certitude, certitudes, competence, confidence, firmness, guaranty, immunity, reliability, safeness, safety, secureness, security, self-assurance, steadiness, sureness, surety). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | εγγύηση (assurance, bail, guarantee, guaranty, hallmark, recognizance, security, sponsion, sponsorship, sureship, surety, warrant, warranty). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | עקיף (indirect, oblique, roundabout, vicarious). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | párhuzamos (parallel). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | jaminan (assurance, bail). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | collaterale (sib, sibling). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 裏付け (backing, endorsement, foundation, guarantee, lining, proof, security, something lined, substantiation, support), 裏付 (backing, endorsement, foundation, guarantee, lining, proof, security, something lined, substantiation, support), 見"り資金 (collateral or counterpart fund), 見"り物資 , 見"り , 担保 (security), 副 (above all, additional, assistant, associate, auxiliary, copy, deputy, duplicate, especially, sub-, substitute, supplementary, vice-), 付帯 (accessory, incidental, secondary). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | た"ぽ (security), うらづけ (backing, endorsement, foundation, guarantee, lining, proof, security, something lined, substantiation, support), ふたい (accessory, ancillary, cloth bag, determination, incidental, secondary), ふく (additional, assistant, associate, auxiliary, bend down, clothes, compound, copy, crawl, crouch, deputy, double, duplicate, fall prostrate, good fortune, hide, lie down, prostrate oneself, stoop, sub-, submit to, substitute, supplementary, to blow, to dry, to emit, to spout, to wipe, vice-, yield to), みかえりしき" (collateral or counterpart fund), みかえりぶっし, みかえり. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 부수. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | raane (assurance, bail, bond, guarantee, hostage, pledge, surety). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ollateralcay colateral (collateral investment, collateral security). (various references) colateral (collaterally, lateral), paralel (concurrent, parallel, simultaneously), indirect (backhand, circuitous, circumlocutory, circumstantial, indirect, indirectly, intermediate, oblique, reflex, roundabout). (various references) коллатеральный, второстепенный (accidental, casual, minor, off, second, secondary, subordinate, subsidiary), боковой (incidental, lateral, side), добавочный (accessory, additional, addl additional, adjunctive, adventitious, complementary, extra, further, more, supplementary). (various references) zalog (forfeit, pledge), srodnik (relative), srodan (affined, agnate, akin, close, conjugate, related, similar), sporedni (side), pobočni, paralelan (parallel). (various references) colateral. (various references) sida vid sida, säkerhet (assurance, certainly, certainty, certitude, cover, deposit, guarantee, guaranty, safeguard, safety, security, surety). (various references) yardımcı (accessary, accessory, acolyte, adjunct, aid, aide, ancillary, assistant, auxiliary, Band aid, booster, coadjutor, contributory, cooperative, deputy, donkey, friend, help, helper, helpful, helpmate, helpmeet, henchman, lieutenant, obliging, second, sidekick, stand by, sub, subsidiary, suffragan, supporter, supporting, vice-), yan (ancillary, aslant, asquint, awry, by-, bye-, flank, flanking, lateral, parietal, side, sidelong, sideward, subordinate), tamamlayıcı teminat (collateral security), tamamlayıcı (adjunct, complement, complemental, complementary, component, expletive, follow up, integral, integrant, modifier, processor, supplement, supplemental, supplementary), tâli (by-, secondary, subsidiary), soydaş (agnatic, agnatical, cognate, consanguine, kin, soul brother, soul sister), paralel (equidistant, latitude, parallel), kökeni aynı olan, aynı amaçlı olan. (various references) рівнобіжний, родич (connection, connexion, cousin, kinsman, relation, relative, sib), побічний (accidental, adventitious, extraneous, incident, indirect, lateral), паралельний (parallel), допоміжний (accessary, accessorial, accessory, adjuvant, auxiliary, emergency, intermediate, ministerial, pilot, secondary, subsidiary, utility), додаткове забезпечення, додатковий (accessary, accessory, accidental, additional, adventitious, appendant, appendical, auxiliary, complementary, expletive, extra, further, more, new, novel, obverse, odd, other, plus, pony, second, secondary, supernumerary, supplemental, supplementary, surplus). (various references) có họ nhưng khác chi, ở bên phụ thêm có thân thuộc ng nh bên. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | com-, pignus. (various references) |
| Medieval Latin | 700-1500 | collateralis. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "collateral": collateralities, collaterality, collateralize, collateralized, collateralizes, collateralizing, collaterally, collaterals. (additional references) | |
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"Collateral" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Caliterra, colateral, colladeral, collatoral, colllateral. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "collateral" (pronounced kula"terul) |
| 7 | -u l a" t er u l | multilateral, unilateral. |
| 6 | -l a" t er u l | bilateral, lateral, trilateral. |
| 4 | -t er u l | doctoral, electoral, guttural, literal, littoral, pastoral, pectoral, postdoctoral, sectoral. |
| 3 | -er u l | admiral, agricultural, architectural, behavioral, Corporal, countercultural, cultural, doggerel, ephemeral, federal, femoral, funeral, Gen, general, horticultural, humoral, inaugural, intercultural, liberal, mackerel, mayoral, mineral, multicultural, natural, neoliberal, nomenclatural, nonagricultural, numeral, peripheral, pickerel, prefectural, procedural, scriptural, sculptural, structural, supernatural, temporal, unnatural, visceral. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-c-e-l-l-l-o-r-t" | |
-2 letters: allocate, collaret. | |
-3 letters: acerola, collate, lacteal, lateral, locater, ocellar, reallot. | |
-4 letters: acetal, aortae, aortal, areola, caller, callet, carate, cartel, catalo, cellar, claret, coaler, coater, collar, collet, colter, lector, locale, locate, loller, loreal, oracle, recall, recoal, rectal, taller, tallol, toller. | |
-5 letters: aceta, actor, alate, alert, allot, altar, alter, aorta, areal, areca, artal, artel, atoll, calla. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-c-e-l-l-l-o-r-t" | |
+1 letter: collaterals. | |
+2 letters: collaterally. | |
+3 letters: collaterality, collateralize. | |
+4 letters: allosterically, collateralized, collateralizes, hepatocellular. | |
+5 letters: collaboratively, collateralities, collateralizing, meroblastically, problematically. | |
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