collateral

[Col*lat·er*al]

It's what you promise to give someone if you don't repay a loan, like the car you put up as collateral when you take a loan out from the bank. As an adjective, collateral can refer to something indirect or off to the side, like collateral damage.

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Coming from, being on, or directed toward, the side; as, collateral pressure.

Noun
a security pledged for the repayment of a loan

Adjective
descended from a common ancestor but through different lines; "cousins are collateral relatives"; "an indirect descendant of the Stuarts"

Adjective S.
situated or running side by side; "collateral ridges of mountains"

Adjective S.
accompaniment to something else; "collateral target damage from a bombing run"

Adjective S.
serving to support or corroborate; "collateral evidence"

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a.
Coming from, being on, or directed toward, the side; as, collateral pressure.

a.
Acting in an indirect way.

a.
Related to, but not strictly a part of, the main thing or matter under consideration; hence, subordinate; not chief or principal; as, collateral interest; collateral issues.

a.
Tending toward the same conclusion or result as something else; additional; as, collateral evidence.

a.
Descending from the same stock or ancestor, but not in the same line or branch or one from the other; -- opposed to lineal.

n.
A collateral relative.

n.
Collateral security; that which is pledged or deposited as collateral security.

Collateral

Col*lat"er*al , a. [LL. collateralis; col- + lateralis lateral. See Lateral.] 1. Coming from, being on, or directed toward, the side; as, collateral pressure. "Collateral light." Shak. 2. Acting in an indirect way.

If by direct or by collateral hand They find us touched, we will our kingdom give . . . To you in satisfaction.

3. Related to, but not strictly a part of, the main thing or matter under consideration; hence, subordinate; not chief or principal; as, collateral interest; collateral issues.

That he [Attebury] was altogether in the wrong on the main question, and on all the collateral questions springing out of it, . . . is true.

4. Tending toward the same conclusion or result as something else; additional; as, collateral evidence.

Yet the attempt may give Collateral interest to this homely tale.

5. (Genealogy) Descending from the same stock or ancestor, but not in the same line or branch or one from the other; -- opposed to lineal. &hand; Lineal descendants proceed one from another in a direct line; collateral relations spring from a common ancestor, but from different branches of that common stirps or stock. Thus the children of brothers are collateral relations, having different fathers, but a common grandfather. Blackstone. Collateral assurance, that which is made, over and above the deed itself. -- Collateral circulation (Med. & Physiol.), circulation established through indirect or subordinate branches when the supply through the main vessel is obstructed. -- Collateral issue. (Law) (a) An issue taken upon a matter aside from the merits of the case. (b) An issue raised by a criminal convict who pleads any matter allowed by law in bar of execution, as pardon, diversity of person, etc. (c) A point raised, on cross-examination, aside from the issue fixed by the pleadings, as to which the answer of the witness, when given, cannot subsequently be contradicted by the party asking the question. -- Collateral security, security for the performance of covenants, or the payment of money, besides the principal security,

Collateral

Col*lat"er*al , n. 1. A collateral relative. Ayliffe. 2. Collateral security; that which is pledged or deposited as collateral security.

Coming from, being on, or directed toward, the side; as, collateral pressure.

A collateral relative.

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Usage Examples

A lot of my friends are gangsters. Not like gangsters - well, yeah, all sorts of levels of criminality - but not the types that are preying on innocent people. I have no interest in the type of criminality that has no respect for collateral damage.

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