Synonym: confirmative, confirmatory, confirming, corroborative, corroboratory, indirect, substantiating, substantiative, validating, validatory, verificatory, verifying. Similar words: collate, bilateral, unilateral, equilateral, collation, collaborate, collar, collapse. Meaning: [kɒ'lætərəl] 
n. a security pledged for the repayment of a loan. adj. 1. descended from a common ancestor but through different lines 2. serving to support or corroborate 3. accompany, concomitant 4. situated or running side by side.
n. a security pledged for the repayment of a loan. adj. 1. descended from a common ancestor but through different lines 2. serving to support or corroborate 3. accompany, concomitant 4. situated or running side by side. 
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1 To minimize collateral damage maximum precision in bombing was required.
2 People put up their homes as collateral in order to raise the money to invest in the scheme.
3 There may be collateral benefits to the scheme.
4 She used/put up her house as collateral for a loan.
5 We had put our house up as collateral for our bank loan.
6 The government denied that there had been any collateral damage during the bombing raid.
7 The bank will insist on collateral for a loan of that size.
8 There may also be collateral benefits.
9 Our helplessness, outrage and fear were not collateral damage.
10 This collateral damage to otherwise healthy bits of tooth may in the end have to be dealt with itself.
11 He also purported to apply the conventional collateral fact doctrine but reached a different conclusion from that of his brethren.
12 The notes are not backed by any collateral; rather, they rely on the high credit rating of the issuing corporation.
13 The collateral or preliminary fact doctrine was used as their mechanism.
14 It is possible to use accounts receivable as collateral for short-term loans.
15 It could also be that collateral damage from a program crash has changed the setting.
16 A collateral history was taken from other relevant informants wherever possible.
17 I would rather loan a million dollars on character than on any other collateral in the world.
18 The owner of the shop used his house as a collateral for the loan.
19 Most people here cannot borrow from banks because they lack collateral.
20 The seven companies expect to lose nearly half the money they lent after selling collateral held on the nonperforming debt.
21 The charge on loans to brokers on stock exchange collateral.
22 The government could then instruct all banks not to push companies into default and not to dispose of any collateral.
23 Periodic alternating activation of flexors and extensors is achieved by reciprocal inhibition mediated by inhibitory collateral neurones.
24 Although traditional lenders take into account lottery income(sentencedict.com),(www.Sentencedict.com) they do not accept the payments as collateral.
25 They allow the farm to obtain a loan from the government by using the crop at collateral.
26 Old and past-due accounts are obviously less valuable as collateral than the account of a customer with a reputation for prompt payment.
27 Thus far, Gould has provided a restatement of the collateral or preliminary fact doctrine.
28 There were 150 tonnes in Western banks as loan collateral.
29 They have also found it hard to use their buildings as collateral for loans.
30 Beside the contract of sale of the petrol there was a separate collateral contract relating to the World Cup coins.
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