adjective. Situated or running side by side; parallel.

adjective. Coinciding in tendency or effect; concomitant or accompanying.

adjective. Serving to support or corroborate.

adjective. Of a secondary nature; subordinate.

adjective. Of, relating to, or guaranteed by a security pledged against the performance of an obligation.

adjective. Having an ancestor in common but descended from a different line.

noun. Property acceptable as security for a loan or other obligation.

noun. A collateral relative.

Situated at the side: belonging to the side or to what is at the side; hence, occupying a secondary or subordinate position.

Acting indirectly; acting through side channels.

Accompanying; attendant, especially as an auxiliary; aiding, strengthening, confirming, etc., in a secondary or subordinate way: as, collateral aid; collateral security (see below); collateral evidence.

Descending from the same stock or ancestor (commonly male) as another, but in a different line: distinguished from lineal.

In botany, standing side by side: as, collateral ovules.

In geometry, having a common edge, as two adjoining faces of a polyhedron.

noun. A kinsman or relative descended from a common ancestor, but not in direct line.

noun. Anything of value, or representing value, as bonds, deeds, etc., pledged as security in addition to a direct obligation.

noun. A collateral relative.

noun. Collateral security; that which is pledged or deposited as collateral security.

adjective. Coming from, being on, or directed toward, the side.

adjective. Acting in an indirect way.

adjective. Related to, but not strictly a part of, the main thing or matter under consideration; hence, subordinate; not chief or principal.

adjective. Tending toward the same conclusion or result as something else; additional.

adjective. Descending from the same stock or ancestor, but not in the same line or branch or one from the other; -- opposed to lineal.

adjective. that which is made, over and above the deed itself.

adjective. circulation established through indirect or subordinate branches when the supply through the main vessel is obstructed.

adjective. A point raised, on cross-examination, aside from the issue fixed by the pleadings, as to which the answer of the witness, when given, cannot subsequently be contradicted by the party asking the question.

adjective. security for the performance of covenants, or the payment of money, besides the principal security.

adjective. damage caused by a military operation, such as a bombing, to objects or persons not themselves the intended target of the attack.

adjective. parallel, along the same vein, side by side.

adjective. Corresponding; accompanying, concomitant.

adjective. being aside from the main subject; tangential, subordinate, ancillary.

adjective. 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. A collateral (not linear) family member.

noun. A branch of a bodily part or system of organs

adjective. accompany, concomitant

adjective. situated or running side by side

adjective. descended from a common ancestor but through different lines

adjective. serving to support or corroborate

noun. a security pledged for the repayment of a loan

"Schmidt, on the other hand, never used the term collateral damage -- or any similar term, because that would have completely undermined her fairy tale of righteous indignation."

collateral ancestors  collateral assurance  collateral bundle  collateral circulation  collateral eminence  

parallel  secondary  supportive  

lateral  

collateral damage  collateral form  collateral security  collaterality  collaterally  

bilateral  lateral  multilateral  plurilateral  trilateral  

crucial  equity  extraneous  forego  immediate  

accessory  accessory  accident  accidental  accidental