Noun : He gave the bank some stocks and bonds as collateral for the money he borrowed. From Dictionary.com.
Adjective : He received a scholarship and collateral aid. ,collateral evidence; collateral security. ,a collateral loan. ,These accomplishments are merely collateral to his primary goal. ,A cousin is a collateral relative. ,a collateral wing of a house. ,collateral ridges of mountains. From Dictionary.com.
Laterally, collaterally, meaning is leached from the phonemes that unleash it. From Wordnik.com. [Phonemanography: Romantic to Victorian] Reference
That our leaders lack empathy for the "collaterally" damaged is as shameful as a compassion-reduced electorate. From Wordnik.com. [Action, But No Lights or Cameras on Iraq] Reference
What happens to these collaterally damaged people?. From Wordnik.com. [Interview with Wally Lamb, bestselling author of The Hour I First Believed, She's Come Undone and I Know This Much Is True] Reference
It may be that some cases will come up collaterally. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-09-01] Reference
She's collaterally damaged and lives on with some serious scars. From Wordnik.com. [Walk in My Shoes: Inside the teen brain] Reference
He is nowhere, that we know of, spoken of directly, but often collaterally. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor, Vol. I, No. 6, June 1810] Reference
And I begin collaterally with the issue of stare decisis and the issue of precedence. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Sep 13, 2005] Reference
And it was from the line of Mutesa II that Patricia Kamin was collaterally descended. From Wordnik.com. [Kahawa]
Thousands of innocent peasants have been killed by collaterally challenged NATO bombers. From Wordnik.com. [The Chimerical Enemy of NATO in Afghanistan] Reference
US military commanders are handing out money to so many collaterally damaged Iraqi civilians. From Wordnik.com. [Hush Money] Reference
Massive, devastating force to decapitate the regime would inevitably cause that but only collaterally. From Wordnik.com. [Nuttiness] Reference
Well, the count of collaterally dead Iraqis has already reached a hundred thousand men women and children. From Wordnik.com. [George Bush -- The Contemporary Benedict Arnold of the Proto-Fascist Republican Triad] Reference
That the French monarchy, beginning with the Merovingians and passing collaterally to the Carolingians and. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-01-20] Reference
I am no expert in the field, however– can a judgment be collaterally attacked if it was moot when entered?. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » A Footnote You Wouldn’t Want To See in a Court Opinion:] Reference
It was publicly sealed and witnessed by professional witnesses, as well as by collaterally interested parties. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon"] Reference
That undutiful and perverse children make bad husbands and wives: And, collaterally, bad masters and mistresses. From Wordnik.com. [Pamela] Reference
They used the "F" word to not only insult the fans of UND, but collaterally insulted all Native Americans in the state. From Wordnik.com. [Tim Giago: Catering to That 10 Percent That Love to Be Mascots] Reference
No, there is no ethical difference to be found in how the suffering of the tortured or the collaterally damaged appears. From Wordnik.com. [Sam Harris: In Defense of Torture] Reference
The only question in my mind is how many of the players Fitz will be able to take out, either directly, or collaterally. From Wordnik.com. [Firedoglake » Eat it, Scooter] Reference
The meat from the collaterally damaged Caribou from that broadside can then be used to feed the sailors of our battle fleet. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-07-01] Reference
#36 The only question in my mind is how many of the players Fitz will be able to take out, either directly, or collaterally. From Wordnik.com. [Firedoglake » Eat it, Scooter] Reference
Although not a direct descendant, he is collaterally related to Benjamin Pierce Cheney (1815-1895), the early American expressman. From Wordnik.com. [Whatever Became of Dick Cheney?] Reference
Two brothers of the name of Schaw, Scotchmen, of an ancient race, and ancestors, collaterally, of the present family of Shaw-Stewart of. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745. Volume I.] Reference
He came to G.E. with a Ph.D. in chemical engineering, and-collaterally-with an engineer's faith in process and a graduate student's taste for thinking. From Wordnik.com. [Neutron Jack's Perfect Career] Reference
She finds herself, and then bosses, victims and the collaterally damaged, each goes home refashioned into — or returned to — his or her essential self. From Wordnik.com. [The Transom] Reference
But there are facts collaterally implying that it is not. From Wordnik.com. [The Philosophy of Style] Reference
A fact collaterally established by the Formosan affair was that the. From Wordnik.com. [A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era] Reference
By his mere presence I bet he collaterally gayed up other sports at the games too. From Wordnik.com. [Pajiba] Reference
French aviation derives directly from Lilienthal and collaterally from the Wrights. From Wordnik.com. [The War in the Air; Vol. 1 The Part played in the Great War by the Royal Air Force] Reference
Genesis, a Chronological Map "with remarkable persons and events collaterally placed.". From Wordnik.com. [Castellinaria and Other Sicilian Diversions] Reference
She was likewise to be collaterally secured by pledges from certain cities in the Netherlands. From Wordnik.com. [PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete] Reference
History, indeed, is fortunate when even incidentally and collaterally it light's on authentic information. From Wordnik.com. [The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 4] Reference
Steering exchanged a word with man or woman without this sort of reference to Canaan and, collaterally, to Miss Sally Madeira. From Wordnik.com. [Sally of Missouri] Reference
Well, out of that family Sprang the Leaseworthy Smiths, and collaterally came General Sir Stephen Fitzmaurice Smith of Caxbury ---- '. From Wordnik.com. [A Pair of Blue Eyes] Reference
EVANGELISTA (Madame), born Casa-Real in 1781, of a great Spanish family collaterally descended from the Duke of Alva and related to the. From Wordnik.com. [Repertory of the Comedie Humaine Part 1] Reference
In the first place it is to be observed that they can be counted either upwards, or downwards, or crosswise, that is to say, collaterally. From Wordnik.com. [The Institutes of Justinian] Reference
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