collateral: signification et définitions

Property acceptable as security for a loan or other obligation.

Situated or running side by side; parallel.

Coinciding in tendency or effect; concomitant or accompanying.

Serving to support or corroborate: collateral evidence.

Of a secondary nature; subordinate: collateral target damage from a bombing run.

Of, relating to, or guaranteed by a security pledged against the performance of an obligation: a collateral loan.

Having an ancestor in common but descended from a different line.

A collateral relative.