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Word: collateral
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Meaning:
Adjective:
- being aside from the main subject; tangential, subordinate, ancillary.
- Corresponding; accompanying, concomitant.
- (''family'') of an indirect ancestral relationship, as opposed to lineal descendency.
- parallel, along the same vein, side by side.
- relating to a collateral in the sense of an obligation or security
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Noun:
- A branch of a bodily part or system of organs
- A security or guarantee (usually an asset) pledged for the repayment of a loan if one cannot procure enough funds to repay. (Originally supplied as "accompanying" security.)
- now|_|rare A collateral (not linear) family member.
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