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 promise to pay a sum of money in the event that another person fails to fulfill an obligation.
One who undertakes to pay money or perform other acts in the event that his principal fails therein.
A substitute; a hostage.
Evidence; confirmation; warrant.
Certainty.
That which makes sure; that which confirms; ground of confidence or security.