Parallel, along the same vein, side by side. / Corresponding; accompanying, concomitant. / Being aside from the main subject, target, or goal.

(finance) A security or guarantee (usually an asset) pledged for the repayment of a loan if one cannot procure enough funds to repay. / (now rare, genealogy) A collateral (not linear) family member.

In collateral relation; not lineally. / side by side; by the side / In an indirect or subordinate manner; indirectly.

To secure a loan or other contract by using collateral. / To pledge assets as collateral.

The state or quality of being collateral.

plural of collateral

simple past tense and past participle of collateralize

(law) Secured by a pledge of collateral.

present participle of collateralize

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of collateralize