Need another word that means the same as “collateral”? Find 44 synonyms and 30 related words for “collateral” in this overview.
The synonyms of “Collateral” are: security, surety, guarantee, guaranty, pledge, bond, insurance, indemnity, indemnification, pawn, backing, accompanying, attendant, concomitant, consequent, ensuant, incidental, resultant, sequent, indirect, confirmative, confirmatory, confirming, corroborative, corroboratory, substantiating, substantiative, validating, validatory, verificatory, verifying, accidental, unintended, secondary, subordinate, ancillary, contingent, resulting, consequential, derived, derivative, side by side, aligned, equidistant
According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “collateral” as a noun can have the following definitions:
| backing | The act of providing approval and support. The flooring has a cork base with jute backing. |
| bond | Money that must be forfeited by the bondsman if an accused person fails to appear in court for trial. There was no effective bond between the concrete and the steel. |
| guarantee | A thing serving as security for a guarantee. The treaty provides a guarantee of free trade. |
| guaranty | A collateral agreement to answer for the debt of another in case that person defaults. |
| indemnification | A sum of money paid in compensation for loss or injury. Whistleblower protection is indemnification for individuals who are dismissed as a result of reporting a violation. |
| indemnity | Security against or exemption from legal liability for one’s actions. No indemnity will be given for loss of cash. |
| insurance | Money paid for insurance. My insurance has gone up. |
| pledge | Someone accepted for membership but not yet fully admitted to the group. The conference ended with a joint pledge to limit pollution. |
| security | A department responsible for the security of the institution s property and workers. A matter of national security. |
| surety | One who provides a warrant or guarantee to another. The surety of my impending fatherhood. |
According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “collateral” as an adjective can have the following definitions:
| accidental | Happening by chance or unexpectedly or unintentionally. The location is accidental and contributes nothing to the poem. |
| accompanying | Following or accompanying as a consequence. The accompanying documentation. |
| aligned | Brought into agreement or cooperation on the side of a faction, party, or cause. Pearly teeth evenly aligned. |
| ancillary | Furnishing added support. An ancillary pump. |
| attendant | Being present (at meeting or event etc. A child in a pram with attendant nursemaid. |
| concomitant | Occurring with or following as a consequence. Concomitant with his obsession with dirt was a desire for order. |
| confirmative | Serving to support or corroborate. |
| confirmatory | Serving to establish the truth or correctness of something that is suspected or reported. A confirmatory phone call. |
| confirming | Indicating existence or presence of a suspected condition or pathogen. |
| consequent | Following as a result or effect. The period of tension and consequent need for military preparedness. |
| consequential | Important; significant. The year s only really consequential legislation. |
| contingent | Determined by conditions or circumstances that follow. The results of confession were not contingent they were certain. |
| corroborative | Serving to support or corroborate. |
| corroboratory | Serving to support or corroborate. |
| derivative | Originating from, based on, or influenced by. A highly derivative prose style. |
| derived | Formed or developed from something else; not original. The belief that classes and organizations are secondary and derived. |
| ensuant | Following or accompanying as a consequence. The ensuant response to his appeal. |
| equidistant | The same distance apart at every point. The line joins together all points which are equidistant from the two axes. |
| incidental | Occurring with or following as a consequence. Snags incidental to the changeover in management. |
| indirect | Descended from a common ancestor but through different lines. An indirect advantage. |
| resultant | Occurring or produced as a result of something. Restructuring and the resultant cost savings. |
| resulting | Occurring or following as the consequence of something. Talk of a general election and the resulting political uncertainty. |
| secondary | Denoting or relating to organisms in a particular community that belong to the second trophic level among its consumers, and consume primary consumers. A secondary source. |
| sequent | Occurring with or following as a consequence. Some of the inferences are not sequent on the premises. |
| side by side | Located on a side. |
| subordinate | Unable to stand alone syntactically as a complete sentence. In adventure stories character must be subordinate to action. |
| substantiating | Serving to support or corroborate. |
| substantiative | Serving to support or corroborate. |
| unintended | Not planned or meant. The unintended consequences of people s actions. |
| validating | Serving to support or corroborate. |
| validatory | Serving to support or corroborate. |
| verificatory | Serving to support or corroborate. |
| verifying | Serving to support or corroborate. |
| amortization | The reduction of the value of an asset by prorating its cost over a period of years. An amortization schedule shows your payments each month and how it affects the total amount you owe. |
| amortize | Reduce or pay off (a debt) with regular payments. The vessel s owners could not amortize her high capital costs. |
| arrears | The state of being behind in payments. Mortgage arrears. |
| auctioneer | Sell at an auction. |
| broker | Act as a broker. Fighting continued despite attempts to broker a ceasefire. |
| cash | Exchange for cash. There is a desperate shortage of hard cash. |
| dealer | A seller of illicit goods. A dealer in stolen goods. |
| debenture | A certificate or voucher acknowledging a debt. |
| debt | The state of owing money. He is badly in debt. |
| disburse | Pay out (money from a fund. 67 million of the pledged aid had already been disbursed. |
| financing | The act of financing. |
| foreclosure | The action of taking possession of a mortgaged property when the mortgagor fails to keep up their mortgage payments. Assistance for mortgage borrowers facing foreclosure. |
| funding | The action or practice of providing funding. The public funding of litigation remains a core question. |
| guarantor | One who provides a warrant or guarantee to another. The role of the police as guarantors of public order. |
| honorarium | A payment given for professional services that are rendered nominally without charge. |
| lend | (of a thing) be suitable for. No one would lend him the money. |
| lender | An organization or person that lends money. A mortgage lender. |
| loan | The temporary provision of money (usually at interest. The computer was loaned to us by the theatre. |
| marketer | A person or company that advertises or promotes something. A leading manufacturer and marketer of medical products. |
| mortgage | The amount of money borrowed in a mortgage. I put down a hundred thousand in cash and took out a mortgage for the rest. |
| owe | Owe something especially money to. Champagne houses owe their success to brand image. |
| pawnbroker | A person who lends money at interest on the security of an article pawned. |
| rates | A local tax on property (usually used in the plural. |
| refinance | Renew the financing of. Companies must refinance 20 billion of warrants and bonds. |
| repayment | Payment of a debt or obligation. Minimum monthly repayments. |
| requital | An act of requiting; returning in kind. |
| speculator | Someone who risks losses for the possibility of considerable gains. Speculators are driving the price of oil higher. |
| surety | Something clearly established. The magistrate granted bail with a surety of 500. |
| tenant | Occupy property as a tenant. The landlord can evict a tenant who doesn t pay the rent. |
| underwrite | Accept (a liability or risk) under the terms of an insurance policy. They were willing to underwrite in part the construction of a ship. |
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