Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • transitive verb To secure (a loan) through use of collateral.
  • transitive verb To pledge (property, for example) as collateral.

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  • verb To secure a loan by using collateral.
  • verb To pledge assets as collateral.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • verb pledge as a collateral

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Examples

  • Beard: Hundreds of years of central banking experience tells us that we really shouldn't be sharing loan data when it comes to short term collateralize liquidity.

    Dealbreaker 2009

  • Beard: Hundreds of years of central banking experience tells us that we really shouldn't be sharing loan data when it comes to short term collateralize liquidity.

    Dealbreaker 2009

  • Anyway, she and I were talking one evening about a project she was working on, and she used a variant of collateral in a sentence "collateralize".

    United Methodists want to show that church is a verb, not a noun | RELIGION Blog | dallasnews.com 2009

  • Under AIG's recent proposal to sell securities based on part of its portfolio, a subsidiary of its Chartis property-casualty unit would collateralize notes worth $900 million with 1,157 policies acquired since 2001.

    AIG Tries to Sell Death-Bet Securities Leslie Scism 2011

  • Such transactions would allow banks to improve the quality of the assets on their balance sheets and potentially lower their need to raise fresh capital under new European rules, while also giving the banks a new asset they could collateralize and use to refinance at the ECB.

    Rome Plan for Growth Garners EU Praise Christopher Emsden 2011

  • Bondholders will require evidence that Iran can make payments on these bonds and one way for Iran to do this would be to sign a long-term supply contract, using this guaranteed revenue stream in hard currencies to collateralize the bonds.

    Iran's European Helpers Mark Dubowitz 2010

  • In the third quarter, the builder burned through $81 million in cash, leaving it with just $334.2 million, including $60.8 million in restricted cash supply that Hovnanian is required to keep on hand to collateralize letters of credit.

    Hovnanian Narrows Loss John Kell 2011

  • U.S. Congressional foreign policy staffers have expressed to us concerns that by using long-term supply contracts like EGL's to collateralize billions of dollars in energy bonds, the regime could circumvent sanctions to finance its natural gas sector.

    Iran's European Helpers Mark Dubowitz 2010

  • Another EGL spokesman, Richard Rogers, declined to comment Wednesday on whether his company was concerned that its long-term contract with Iran could be used to collateralize Iranian energy bonds.

    Iran's European Helpers Mark Dubowitz 2010

  • If a bank does a derivatives trade with another private-sector entity, the agreement will stipulate when the counterparty must make payments to collateralize the trade.

    Greece Shows Need For Derivatives Reform Peter Eavis 2010

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