collateralnoun [ U ]
uk/kəˈlæt.ər.əl/us/kəˈlæt̬.ɚ.əl/collateral noun [ U ] (SECURITY FOR DEBT )
valuable property owned by someone who wants to borrow money, that they agree will become the property of the company or person who lends the money if the debt is not paid back:
She used/put up her house as collateral for a loan.
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Interest & capital
- APR
- base rate
- capital
- capital intensive
- capitalization
- fund
- interest rate
- interest-bearing
- lending rate
- money
- nest egg
- Premium Bond
- purse
- saving
- simple interest
- stock
- the purse strings idiom
- the smart money
- venture capital
- vested interest
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collateralnoun [ C ]
uk/kəˈlæt.ər.əl/us/kəˈlæt̬.ɚ.əl/collateral noun [ C ] (BLOOD VESSEL)
specialized medical a smaller blood vessel or nerve that grows out of the main part
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New growth in plants
- bud
- coccygeus
- colli
- colliculus
- collum
- commissure
- communis
- compartment
- complement system
- established
- eye
- shoot
- sprout
- sucker
collateraladjective
uk/kəˈlæt.ər.əl/us/kəˈlæt̬.ɚ.əl/formalconnected but less important, or of the same family although not directly related:
collateral senses of a word
a collateral branch of the family
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Linking and relating
- affiliated
- AL
- appertain to sth
- applicable
- apply
- associate
- associated
- bond
- connection
- context
- interconnected
- interplay
- interrelate
- interrelationship
- kindred
- tar sb with the same brush idiom
- the same/that goes for sb/sth idiom
- tie (sth) in
- tie-in
- tie-up
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