Usually means: Assets pledged to secure loans.
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We found 67 dictionaries that define the word collateral:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. collateral: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. collateral: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. collateral: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. collateral: Collins English Dictionary
  5. collateral: Vocabulary.com
  6. Collateral, collateral: Wordnik
  7. collateral: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. collateral: Wiktionary
  9. collateral: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. collateral: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. collateral: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. collateral: Dictionary.com
  13. collateral: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. collateral: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Collateral (TV series), Collateral (album), Collateral (film), Collateral (finance), Collateral (miniseries), Collateral (movie), Collateral: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Collateral: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. collateral: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. collateral: Rhymezone
  19. Collateral: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. collateral: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. collateral: Free Dictionary
  22. collateral: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. collateral: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  24. collateral: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (30 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. collateral: Webster's New World Finance & Investment Dictionary
  3. collateral: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  4. Duhaime's Canadian law dictionary (No longer online)
  5. collateral: Law.com Dictionary
  6. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  7. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  8. THE 'LECTRIC LAW LIBRARY'S REFERENCE ROOM (No longer online)
  9. COLLATERAL: Accounting Glossary
  10. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  11. Collateral: bizterms.net
  12. Bernstein's Dictionary of Bankruptcy Terminology (No longer online)
  13. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  14. Terms related to the Federal Reserve, banking and economics (No longer online)
  15. collateral: Finance-Glossary.com
  16. Credit Terms (No longer online)
  17. MonsterMoving Mortgage Glossary (No longer online)
  18. Real Estate and Mortgage Glossary (No longer online)
  19. Collateral: Inflation Glossary
  20. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  21. Collateral: Investopedia
  22. Comprehensive Financial (No longer online)
  23. Collateral: INSOLVENCY
  24. Collateral: Securities Terminology
  25. Collateral (disambiguation), collateral: Legal dictionary
  26. Collateral (disambiguation), collateral: Financial dictionary
  27. Collateral: Accounting, Business Studies and Economics Dictionary
  28. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)
  29. Collateral: WashingtonPost.com: Business
  30. Yahoo Tax Center Glossary (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Collateral (disambiguation), collateral: Encyclopedia

Medicine (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Collateral: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Collateral (disambiguation), Collateral (property), collateral: Medical dictionary
  5. Collateral: Drug Medical Dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. COLLATERAL, COLLATERAL, COLLATERAL: Terminology and Descriptions of Geneaological Words

Science (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Collateral: LITHICS-NET's Glossary of Lithics Terminology
  2. Botanical Terms (No longer online)
  3. Anthropology dictionary (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. collateral: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See collaterality as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Parallel, along the same vein, side by side.
adjective:  Corresponding; accompanying, concomitant.
adjective:  Being aside from the main subject, target, or goal.
adjective:  (genealogy) Of an indirect ancestral relationship, as opposed to lineal descendency.
adjective:  (finance) Relating to a collateral in the sense of an obligation or security.
adjective:  (finance) Expensive to the extent of being paid through a loan.
adjective:  Coming or directed along the side.
adjective:  Acting in an indirect way.
adjective:  (biology, of a vascular bundle) Having the phloem and xylem adjacent.
noun:  (finance) A security or guarantee (usually an asset) pledged for the repayment of a loan if one cannot procure enough funds to repay.
noun:  (now rare, genealogy) A collateral (not linear) family member.
noun:  (anatomy) A branch of a bodily part or system of organs.
noun:  (marketing) Printed materials or content of electronic media used to enhance sales of products (short form of collateral material).
noun:  (anatomy) A thinner blood vessel providing an alternate route to blood flow in case the main vessel becomes occluded.
noun:  (archaic) A contemporary or rival.

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