- provide assets to cover proposal - Security for a loan - Coming from, being on, or directed toward, the side;
as, collateral pressure. - Acting in an indirect way. - Related to, but not strictly a part of, the main thing
or matter under consideration; hence, subordinate; not chief or
principal; as, collateral interest; collateral issues. - Tending toward the same conclusion or result as
something else; additional; as, collateral evidence. - Descending from the same stock or ancestor, but not in
the same line or branch or one from the other; -- opposed to lineal.