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collateral

n. a security pledged for the repayment of a loan

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collateral

adj. situated or running side by side; "collateral ridges of mountains"

collateral

adj. accompany, concomitant; "collateral target damage from a bombing run"

collateral, indirect

adj. descended from a common ancestor but through different lines; "cousins are collateral relatives"; "an indirect descendant of the Stuarts"

collateral, confirmative, confirming, confirmatory, corroborative, corroboratory, substantiating, substantiative, validating, validatory, verificatory, verifying

adj. serving to support or corroborate; "collateral evidence"

bond, bond certificate

n. a certificate of debt (usually interest-bearing or discounted) that is issued by a government or corporation in order to raise money; the issuer is required to pay a fixed sum annually until maturity and then a fixed sum to repay the principal

security, certificate

n. a formal declaration that documents a fact of relevance to finance and investment; the holder has a right to receive interest or dividends; "he held several valuable securities"

text file, document

n. (computer science) a computer file that contains text (and possibly formatting instructions) using seven-bit ASCII characters

insurance

n. promise of reimbursement in the case of loss; paid to people or companies so concerned about hazards that they have made prepayments to an insurance company

subordinate, low-level

adj. lower in rank or importance

attendant

adj. being present (at meeting or event etc.) "attendant members of the congreation"

antiparallel

adj. (especially of vectors) parallel but oppositely directed; "antiparallel vectors"

simultaneous, in parallel

adj. occurring or operating at the same time; "a series of coincident events"

nonconvergent, nonintersecting

adj. (of lines, planes, or surfaces) never meeting or crossing

alternate, alternative, substitute

adj. serving or used in place of another; "an alternative plan"

auxiliary, subsidiary, supplemental, supplementary

adj. functioning in a supporting capacity; "the main library and its auxiliary branches"

secondhand

adj. derived from what is primary or original; not firsthand; "a secondhand report"; "a secondhand account of a memory of something once read"; "most of our knowledge is secondhand"

second-string

adj. being a replacement or substitute for a regular member of a team; "a second-string pitcher"

tributary

adj. paying tribute; "a tributary colony"

utility(a), substitute(a)

adj. capable of substituting in any of several positions on a team; "a utility infielder"

vicarious

adj. suffered or done by one person as a substitute for another; "vicarious atonement"

accessory, adjunct, ancillary, adjuvant, appurtenant, auxiliary

adj. furnishing added support; "an ancillary pump"; "an adjuvant discipline to forms of mysticism"; "The mind and emotions are auxiliary to each other"

certificatory

adj. serving to certify or endorse authoritatively

demonstrative of(p)

adj. serving to prove or demonstrate; "the oath of office is...demonstrative of the legislative opinion on this subject"- John Marshall

lineal, direct

adj. in a straight unbroken line of descent from parent to child; "lineal ancestors"; "lineal heirs"; "a direct descendant of the king"; "direct heredity"

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