collateral

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The bank demanded collateral, so he left his Rolls Royce in their warehouse vault.

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Quick take

a security pledged for the repayment of a loan

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of collateral gathered in one view.

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

serving to support or corroborate; "collateral evidence"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for collateral.

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

serving to support or corroborate; "collateral evidence"

adjective

accompany, concomitant; "collateral target damage from a bombing run"

adjective

situated or running side by side; "collateral ridges of mountains"

Example sentences

The bank demanded collateral, so he left his Rolls Royce in their warehouse vault.

It might even be secured with the company's assets as collateral.

The computer says no: you don't have enough credit, your credit is too bad, you don't make enough, you don't have collateral.

An innocent is an innocent, and the concept of 'collateral damage' has no place outside total war.

I'm not sure why this guy had trouble understanding that he needed money in his account as collateral against the charge back.

Without collateral markets, volatilises for puts and calls will diverge and the market's robustness will suffer.

The low-income people who depend on remittances are collateral damage in service of that objective.

These sort of campaigns beggar belief, either they are ineffective, or they must surely do serious collateral damage to shared values.

However, a key point is that the bank holds collateral against the loan, and that collateral has a fair-market value, so the balance sheet is still positive.

The lack of rates and collateral markets also makes this market vulnerable to some well-known predatory trading tactics.

Normal leases are financed by banks with the car as collateral at the end of three years; this allows the bank to take the risk of much lower principal repayments over the first 36 months.

Options market makers need rates and collateral markets to provide liquidity and correct market aberrations through arbitrage.

Non-linear derivatives market participates need collateral markets to manage their risks.

You're quite literally acceptable collateral damage of a core design goal of Google+: for strategic reasons, they want real identity relationships not "Internet identities" which may or may not be pseudonyms.