collateral

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In the case of the districts, "the collateral was a mix of some of (Royal Bank of Canada's) most toxic debt," the civil complaint states.

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  1. adjective Situated or running side by side; parallel.
  2. adjective Coinciding in tendency or effect; concomitant or accompanying.
  3. adjective Serving to support or corroborate: collateral evidence.
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  • Secured loan needs collateral which is generally the car itself. —  Find Free Articles - ArticlesBase
  • Using the gun as collateral, a customer named Christina borrows $130. —  Marketplace
  • If you are paying guest, job seeker as well, you can prefer unsecured loans to secured loans because it doesn't require you to pawn any type of worldly stuff as collateral which is like a security or guarantee. —  Find Free Articles - ArticlesBase
  • Pyongyang has little collateral, and for years has used its nuclear weapons program as its trump card, promising to abandon its atomic ambitions in exchange for aid and then dangling the nuclear threat when it doesn't get its way. —  chron.com Chronicle
  • I am sick of the term collateral damage when it comes to their lives being taken and when it pertains to Americans who are killed through acts of terror and hate, we label them victims.
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  1. Middle English, from Medieval Latin collaterālis : Latin com-, com- + Latin latus, later-, side.

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  1. Early modern English collaterall, from Middle English collateral = French collatéral = Spanish colateral = Portuguese collateral = Italian collaterale, from Middle Latin collateralis, from Latin com-, together, + lateralis, of the side: see lateral.
 

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/kəˈlætərəl/
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