collateral
- Adjective. parallel, along the same vein, side by side.
- Adjective. Corresponding; accompanying, concomitant.
- Adjective. being aside from the main subject; tangential, subordinate, ancillary.
- Adjective. (''family'') of an indirect ancestral relationship, as opposed to lineal descendency.
- Adjective. relating to a collateral in the sense of an obligation or security.
- Adjective. expensive to the extent of being paid through a loan.
- Noun. 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.).
- Noun. (context, now) A collateral (not linear) family member.
- Noun. A branch of a bodily part or system of organs.
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