Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In a collateral manner.
  • In collateral relation; not in a direct line; not lineally.
  • With or by means of collaterals.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adverb Side by side; by the side.
  • adverb In an indirect or subordinate manner; indirectly.
  • adverb In collateral relation; not lineally.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adverb In collateral relation; not lineally.
  • adverb side by side; by the side
  • adverb In an indirect or subordinate manner; indirectly.

Etymologies

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

collateral +‎ -ly

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Examples

  • Whatever the good intentions of this or that ordinary individual serving in the occupation forces -- such as the military doctors who saved what was left of Razia's life -- the underlying logic of domination will have its way, churning relentlessly through the bodies of innocent people caught up -- deliberately or "collaterally" -- in the brutal power of foreign forces which should not be in their land.

    unknown title 2009

  • Whatever the good intentions of this or that ordinary individual serving in the occupation forces -- such as the military doctors who saved what was left of Razia's life -- the underlying logic of domination will have its way, churning relentlessly through the bodies of innocent people caught up -- deliberately or "collaterally" -- in the brutal power of foreign forces which should not be in their land.

    unknown title 2009

  • Laterally, collaterally, meaning is leached from the phonemes that unleash it.

    Phonemanography: Romantic to Victorian 2008

  • That our leaders lack empathy for the "collaterally" damaged is as shameful as a compassion-reduced electorate.

    Action, But No Lights or Cameras on Iraq 2005

  • Data from Marjah, Helmand (below) paints a similar picture with high rates of attacks persisting 30 weeks after OP MOSHTARAK and an average of two residents per week being killed by AOG in acts of intimidation or collaterally in IED strikes.

    Derrick Crowe: General Petraeus, Proconsul of Fantasyland Derrick Crowe 2010

  • Is America prepared to accept an Afghan civilian casualty toll of about 1 million -- killed volitionally or collaterally as we did in Iraq.?

    Michael Brenner: COIN Classic, New COIN, Post-Modern COIN Michael Brenner 2011

  • Data from Marjah, Helmand (below) paints a similar picture with high rates of attacks persisting 30 weeks after OP MOSHTARAK and an average of two residents per week being killed by AOG in acts of intimidation or collaterally in IED strikes.

    Derrick Crowe: General Petraeus, Proconsul of Fantasyland Derrick Crowe 2010

  • Curing it could collaterally bring with it a radical change of direction that would work toward resolution on any number of anti-Semitism-centric challenges.

    Dovid Efune: The Jewish Solution Problem Dovid Efune 2011

  • Data from Marjah, Helmand (below) paints a similar picture with high rates of attacks persisting 30 weeks after OP MOSHTARAK and an average of two residents per week being killed by AOG in acts of intimidation or collaterally in IED strikes.

    Derrick Crowe: General Petraeus, Proconsul of Fantasyland Derrick Crowe 2010

  • Data from Marjah, Helmand (below) paints a similar picture with high rates of attacks persisting 30 weeks after OP MOSHTARAK and an average of two residents per week being killed by AOG in acts of intimidation or collaterally in IED strikes.

    Derrick Crowe: General Petraeus, Proconsul of Fantasyland Derrick Crowe 2010

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