Money or some other valuable item given to evidence a contract; a pledge or earnest.
A security or guarantee (usually an asset) pledged for the repayment of a loan if one cannot procure enough funds to repay.
Printed materials or content of electronic media used to enhance sales of products (short form of collateral material).
A thinner blood vessel providing an alternate route to blood flow in case the main vessel becomes occluded.
A branch of a bodily part or system of organs.
Expensive to the extent of being paid through a loan.
Of an indirect ancestral relationship, as opposed to lineal descendency.
Acting in an indirect way.
Parallel, along the same vein, side by side.
Being aside from the main subject, target, or goal.
Relating to a collateral in the sense of an obligation or security.
Corresponding; accompanying, concomitant.
Having the phloem and xylem adjacent.
Coming or directed along the side.