collateral vs warranty

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. 

warranty

noun
  • A guarantee that a certain outcome or obligation will be fulfilled; security. 

  • A written guarantee, usually over a fixed period, provided to someone who buys a product or item, which states that repairs will be provided free of charge in case of damage or a fault. 

  • A stipulation of an insurance policy made by an insuree, guaranteeing that the facts of the policy are true and the insurance risk is as stated, which if not fulfilled renders the policy void. 

  • A legal agreement, either written or oral (an expressed warranty) or implied through the actions of the buyer and seller (an implied warranty), which states that the goods or property in question will be in exactly the same state as promised, such as in a sale of an item or piece of real estate. 

  • Justification or mandate to do something, especially in terms of one’s personal conduct. 

verb
  • To warrant; to guarantee. 

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