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collaterally
col·lat·er·al C0477300 (kə-lăt′ər-əl)adj.1. Situated or running side by side; parallel.2. Coinciding in tendency or effect; concomitant or accompanying.3. Serving to support or corroborate: collateral evidence.4. Of a secondary nature; subordinate: collateral target damage from a bombing run.5. Of, relating to, or guaranteed by a security pledged against the performance of an obligation: a collateral loan.6. Having an ancestor in common but descended from a different line.n.1. Property acceptable as security for a loan or other obligation.2. A collateral relative. [Middle English, from Medieval Latin collaterālis : Latin com-, com- + Latin latus, later-, side.] col·lat′er·al·ly adv.EncyclopediaSeecollateral |