Dictionary Entry
collateral
collateral is a 10-letter English word with 12 senses as adjective and noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Coming from, being on, or directed toward, the side; as, collateral pressure. Face value is 12 in Scrabble and 16 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
10 letters · Scrabble 12 · Words With Friends 16 · 12 senses
Definitions
- 1adjective
Coming from, being on, or directed toward, the side; as, collateral pressure.
- 2adjective
Acting in an indirect way.
- 3adjective
Related to, but not strictly a part of, the main thing or matter under consideration; hence, subordinate; not chief or principal; as, collateral interest; collateral issues.
- 4adjective
Tending toward the same conclusion or result as something else; additional; as, collateral evidence.
- 5adjective
Descending from the same stock or ancestor, but not in the same line or branch or one from the other; -- opposed to lineal.
- 6noun
A collateral relative.
- 7noun
Collateral security; that which is pledged or deposited as collateral security.
- 8noun
a security pledged for the repayment of a loan
- 9adjective
descended from a common ancestor but through different lines
"cousins are collateral relatives"
"an indirect descendant of the Stuarts"
Synonyms
- 10adjective
situated or running side by side
"collateral ridges of mountains"
- 11adjective
accompany, concomitant
"collateral target damage from a bombing run"
- 12adjective
serving to support or corroborate
"collateral evidence"
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