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.
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.
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.