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collateral
What does collateral mean?
collateral (noun): a security pledged for the repayment of a loan.
Definition: Princeton WordNet 3.1.
How do you pronounce collateral?
/kəˈlætəɹəl/ (IPA, American English). The app reads every word aloud.
Where does collateral come from?
Recorded since c.1378, from Old French, from Medieval Latin collaterālis, from Latin col- (“together with”) (a form of con-) + the stem of latus (“side”).
Etymology: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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