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collateral
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
Collateral is a 2004 American neo-noir crime thriller directed by Michael Mann and written by Stuart Beattie . It stars Tom Cruise cast against type as a contract killer and Jamie Foxx as a taxi driver who finds himself has a hostage during an evening of ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Collateral \Col*lat"er*al\, a. [LL. collateralis; col- + lateralis lateral. See Lateral .] Coming from, being on, or directed toward, the side; as, collateral pressure. ``Collateral light.'' --Shak. Acting in an indirect way. If by direct or by ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
16c., "colleague, associate," from collateral (adj.). Meaning "thing given as security" is from 1832, American English, from phrase collateral security (1720).
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
I. noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ If unsecured, no specific assets are pledged as collateral for the loan. ▪ The firm pledges its inventory as collateral for a short-term loan, but the lender has no physical control over the inventory. ▪ The government could ...
Usage examples of collateral.
Rosa have much ground to claim kinship in the collateral of Afrikanerdom where, if you went back three hundred years, every Cloete and Smit and van Heerden would turn out to have blood-ties with everyone else.
They were joined in their expeditions by other nations, especially by the collateral branches of their family, the Mizraim, Caphtorim, and the sons of Canaan.
I used them as collateral to pump the stock of the Orlando Coria Mining and Bright Matter Company, Incorporated.
Kirov was insisting we grant loans to companies that had no collateral, no creditworthiness whatsoever.
History should bring its collateral assistance: the Medicean Queens, Venice, bloody Spain, hard-visaged monks calmly directing the engines of torture, the poison of anonymous calumny, and dread secrets more dreadfully betrayed, could furnish much of truthful precedent.
Collateral discharge, the spreading, non-specific recoil from the directed narrowcast wave the battery was throwing down.
Bacmudsorak, swearing us all to secrecy, noted that early in its igneous development, it had harbored a millennia-long case of pyroclastic envy against a pit mine of collateral laminates.
Mariella gives several seminars on her work on the Chi and the virus that the Chinese engineered to try to destroy it, and sits in the audience and listens to presentations by others on the ecological damage caused by the slicks and on DNA sequences published on the Internet, speculative papers on possible selective agents against the slicks, and on what is known about the chemical agents both the Chinese and American governments have used, either with little success or with massive collateral damage to the ecosystems they were trying to protect.
They did not make it impossible for the collateral descendants of their australopithecines to learn that the Heechee had visited their area.
A long line of ancestors, collaterals, and in-Iaws, the intertwined and inbred aristocracy of New England, would turn in their graves.
Their great curse is, and probably will be, in selecting too many of their officers from classes not embued with proper military pride, and altogether without the collaterals of a good military education.
Captain, while it is equally sure, from the collateral evidence, that Master Mullens died on shipboard.
The collateral blend of trace gases I deem to be unusual but nonthreatening, at least if not inhaled over a long period of time.
This doctrine reinforces American advantages in strategic mobility, prepositioning, technology, training, and in fielding integrated military systems to provide and retain superiority, and responds to the minimum casualty and collateral damage criteria set first in the Reagan Administration.
Giuseppe Palladino, who is called Joe for short, and this Joe is in the money very good at the moment, and he is glad to lend us a pound note on the Betsy, because Joe is such a character as never knows when he may need an extra Betsy, and anyway it is the first time in his experience around the racetracks that anybody ever offers him collateral for a loan.