collateral vs guarantee

collateral

noun
  • 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. 

adj
  • 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. 

guarantee

noun
  • A legal assurance of something, e.g. a security for the fulfillment of an obligation. 

  • The person to whom a guarantee is made. 

  • A person who gives such a guarantee; a guarantor. 

  • More specifically, a written declaration that a certain product will be fit for a purpose and work correctly; a warranty 

  • Anything that assures a certain outcome. 

verb
  • To make something certain. 

  • To give an assurance that something will be done right. 

  • To assume or take responsibility for a debt or other obligation. 

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