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What does collateral mean?

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Adjective
  1. Parallel, along the same vein, side by side.
  2. Corresponding; accompanying, concomitant.
  3. Being aside from the main subject, target, or goal; tangential, subordinate, ancillary.
  4. Of an indirect ancestral relationship, as opposed to lineal descendency.
  5. Relating to a collateral in the sense of an obligation or security.
  6. Expensive to the extent of being paid through a loan.
  7. Coming or directed along the side.
  8. Acting in an indirect way.
Noun
  1. A security or guarantee (usually an asset) pledged for the repayment of a loan if one cannot procure enough funds to repay. (Originally supplied as "accompanying" security.)
  2. (now rare) A collateral (not linear) family member.
  3. A branch of a bodily part or system of organs.
  4. (marketing) Printed materials or content of electronic media used to enhance sales of products (short form of collateral material).
  5. A thinner blood vessel providing an alternate route to blood flow in case the main vessel becomes occluded.
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