I. noun
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If unsecured, no specific assets are pledged as collateral for the loan.
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The firm pledges its inventory as collateral for a short-term loan, but the lender has no physical control over the inventory.
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The government could then instruct all banks not to push companies into default and not to dispose of any collateral .
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The seven companies expect to lose nearly half the money they lent after selling collateral held on the nonperforming debt.
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There were 150 tonnes in Western banks as loan collateral .
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They have also found it hard to use their buildings as collateral for loans.
II. adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
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contract
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Beside the contract of sale of the petrol there was a separate collateral contract relating to the World Cup coins.
damage
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This collateral damage to otherwise healthy bits of tooth may in the end have to be dealt with itself.
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Our helplessness, outrage and fear were not collateral damage .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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The ban on increased imports has the collateral effect of forcing up prices.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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He also purported to apply the conventional collateral fact doctrine but reached a different conclusion from that of his brethren.
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Our helplessness, outrage and fear were not collateral damage.
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Provided that the court felt that the issue was collateral , then intervention was justified.
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There may also be collateral benefits.
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This may relate to collateral development and/or remodelling of the lesion during the period following thrombolysis.
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Thus far, Gould has provided a restatement of the collateral or preliminary fact doctrine.