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collateral

noun
🔊/kəˈlætərəl/
🔊/kəˈlætərəl/
[uncountable] (finance金融)
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  1. property or something valuable that you promise to give to somebody if you cannot pay back money that you borrow抵押物；担保品
    • We had put our house up as collateral for our bank loan.我们把房子当作银行贷款的抵押品。
    Topics Moneyc2
    Word Originlate Middle English (as an adjective): from medieval Latin collateralis, from col- ‘together with’ + lateralis (from latus, later- ‘side’). Sense (1) of the noun (originally US) is from the phrase collateral security, denoting something pledged in addition to the main obligation of a contract.

collateral

adjective
🔊/kəˈlætərəl/
🔊/kəˈlætərəl/
(formal)
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  1. connected with something else, but in addition to it and less important附属的；附加的；附带的
    • collateral benefits附加津贴
    Oxford Collocations DictionaryCollateral is used with these nouns:
    • damage
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    Word Originlate Middle English (as an adjective): from medieval Latin collateralis, from col- ‘together with’ + lateralis (from latus, later- ‘side’). Sense (1) of the noun (originally US) is from the phrase collateral security, denoting something pledged in addition to the main obligation of a contract.