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In natural English speech, "collateral" appears in contexts such as: "At that time, that meant that if you were a heavily leveraged financial organization-- a Bear Sterns, for example-- and you were using these things as pledges and as repo collateral, as they fell in value, you had to use more and more of them to borrow the same amount of money. Unfortunately, you couldn't do that, because there's a fixed stock of the assets.". Listen to the exact timestamped clip in the accompanying video with synchronized subtitles.

IPA/kəˈlætəɹəl/

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At that time, that meant that if you were a heavily leveraged financial organization-- a Bear Sterns, for example-- and you were using these things as pledges and as repo

collateral, as they fell in value, you had to use more and more of them to borrow the same amount of money.

Unfortunately, you couldn't do that, because there's a fixed stock of the assets.

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adjective

Parallel, in the same vein, side by side.

“Her anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) and medial collateral ligament (MCL) are torn and Vonn has a lateral fracture of the tibial plateau, the upper end of the tibia or shin bone.”

adjective

Corresponding; accompanying, concomitant.

“Yet the attempt may give / Collateral interest to this homely tale.”

noun

A security or guarantee (usually an asset) pledged for the repayment of a loan if one cannot procure enough funds to repay.

“"The decline in the quality of eligible collateral is a grave problem. The ECB is now buying corporate bonds that are close to junk, and the haircuts can barely deal with a one-notch credit downgrade. The reputational risk of such actions by a central bank would have been unthinkable in the past."”

Synonyms:collateral security pledge

noun

A collateral (not linear) family member.

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