collateral

Từ điển Oxford Learners Wordfinder Dictionary

I - noun

a security pledged for the repayment of a loan
• Hypernyms:
security interest
• Hyponyms:
guarantee, guaranty

II - adjective

1. descended from a common ancestor but through different lines
- cousins are collateral relatives
- an indirect descendant of the Stuarts
• Syn:
indirect
• Ant:
lineal
• See Also:
related
2. serving to support or corroborate
- collateral evidence
• Syn:
confirmative, confirming, confirmatory, corroborative, corroboratory,
substantiating, substantiative, validating, validatory, verificatory, verifying
• Similar to:
supportive
• Derivationally related forms:
verify (for: verificatory), validate (for: validatory), substantiate (for: substantiative), corroborate (for: corroboratory), corroborate (for: corroborative), confirm (for: confirmatory), confirm (for: confirmative)
3. accompany, concomitant
- collateral target damage from a bombing run
• Similar to:
secondary
4. situated or running side by side
- collateral ridges of mountains
• Similar to:
parallel

• Từ trái nghĩa / Antonyms:
  lineal, direct