as in deposit
something that you promise to give someone if you cannot pay back a loan
They put up their house as collateral for the loan.
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as in peripheral
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as in related
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Recent Examples of collateral
Miami Herald, 25 Apr. 2025
Are my salespeople building their own marketing collateral?
—Alexander Masters, Forbes.com, 18 Apr. 2025
Jasmin Suknanan, CNBC, 14 Apr. 2025
Secured loans may require additional verification steps, such as collateral appraisal or legal documentation, which can delay approval.
—True Tamplin, Forbes, 20 Mar. 2025
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Noun
Williams, 48, the founder of Cash Money records, was just sued by the holder of a $12 million loan with the Palm Island house as collateral.
—Miami Herald, 25 Apr. 2025
Are my salespeople building their own marketing collateral?
—Alexander Masters, Forbes.com, 18 Apr. 2025
Adjective
Eligible borrowers Must be in operation for at least five months
Loan amounts
Up to $250,000 for collateral loans
Loan terms
Not disclosed
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National Funding
National Funding funds a variety of industries, including agriculture, beauty, wellness, restaurants and more.
—Jasmin Suknanan, CNBC, 14 Apr. 2025
Secured loans may require additional verification steps, such as collateral appraisal or legal documentation, which can delay approval.
—True Tamplin, Forbes, 20 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for collateral
Noun
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That places the creatures as having lived during the early Carboniferous period, a time when Earth was covered in trees, and vast deposits of coal were beginning to form.—
Sara Hashemi,
Smithsonian Magazine,
19 May 2025
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The Arc Coast is penciled in for 2026 production, and reservations are open now for a refundable deposit of $250.—
Paul Ridden
May 18,
New Atlas,
18 May 2025
Adjective
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Despite trillions of dollars at stake, forest destruction—and the corporate role in driving it—is still widely treated as a peripheral issue.—
Felicia Jackson,
Forbes.com,
8 May 2025
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But after a playoff contender over in the American League suffered a brutal injury setback, the Mets could be looking to offload some of their peripheral talent.—
Peter Chawaga,
MSNBC Newsweek,
4 May 2025
Adjective
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Anyway, Minnesota has now started down its path to protecting the free speech and related rights through the UPEPA.—
Jay Adkisson,
Forbes.com,
15 May 2025
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But seven of the instances involved chimpanzees providing care to others, and in four of those cases, the animals weren’t closely related.—
Sara Hashemi,
Smithsonian Magazine,
15 May 2025
Adjective
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Having already served 44 months following their original convictions, they were released in June 2024 after serving just seven additional months.—
Monica Mercuri,
Forbes.com,
10 May 2025
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Garnishes: The Easiest Way to Elevate a Dish Many people see a showstopping dish and assume the cook used additional hours of prep work to take a dish from delicious to gorgeous.—
Ginger Perra,
Better Homes & Gardens,
10 May 2025
Adjective
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Also, by this time, waterbed owners and prospective buyers were fully aware of the associated issues.—
Mary Cornetta,
Better Homes & Gardens,
13 May 2025
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That assessment might need to change following the release of a new tool that can directly disable Windows Defender and its associated protections on Windows.—
Davey Winder,
Forbes.com,
12 May 2025
Noun
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Here’s the really good news among the bad critical vulnerability disclosure stuff: there is no patch to install, no updates to deploy, and no action required by the user at all.—
Davey Winder,
Forbes.com,
11 May 2025
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That was light work compared to some stuff that happens later.—
Joey Nolfi Published,
EW.com,
10 May 2025
Adjective
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Now, with access to Sherpa guides, porters, supplemental oxygen and top-of-the-range equipment, the mountain is far more accessible to hobbyists and tourists.—
Amy Woodyatt,
CNN Money,
13 May 2025
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Giving a killer robot killer cheekbones and killer abs, but repeatedly showing us his Ken doll-style absence of genitals, becomes a peculiar piece of world-building that even supplemental dialogue can’t fix.—
Daniel Fienberg,
HollywoodReporter,
12 May 2025
Adjective
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Accompanying the photos is an installation of contemporaneous ephemera, as well as excerpts of cinema verité-style footage of the band recorded by filmmakers Albert and David Maysles, who were granted access to document the group during their first U.S. visit in February 1964.—
Jessica Gelt,
Los Angeles Times,
25 Apr. 2025
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There were no contemporaneous accounts written by Omanis, or written in Arabic, that recorded with such specificity the life and times of Omani tribespeople of that time.—
Chris Wallace,
Travel + Leisure,
15 Apr. 2025
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“Collateral.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/collateral. Accessed 24 May. 2025.
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