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something that you promise to give someone if you cannot pay back a loan
They put up their house as collateral for the loan.
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Recent Examples of collateral
Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 6 Feb. 2025
As of December 31, 2024, the company had no outstanding loans or digital asset collateral.
—Quartz Intelligence Newsroom, Quartz, 5 Feb. 2025
Chris Gallagher, USA TODAY, 27 Jan. 2025
The fund targets smaller loans, ranging from $100,000 to $5 million, with typical loan-to-value (LTV) ratios of 25% to 65% to ensure robust collateral coverage.
—Nina Bambysheva, Forbes, 23 Jan. 2025
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Noun
And after all, housing is the collateral on mortgages.
—Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 6 Feb. 2025
As of December 31, 2024, the company had no outstanding loans or digital asset collateral.
—Quartz Intelligence Newsroom, Quartz, 5 Feb. 2025
Adjective
There are more than 45,000 collateral consequences tied to having a record, creating a ripple effect that traps people in cycles of poverty and exclusion.
—Chris Gallagher, USA TODAY, 27 Jan. 2025
The fund targets smaller loans, ranging from $100,000 to $5 million, with typical loan-to-value (LTV) ratios of 25% to 65% to ensure robust collateral coverage.
—Nina Bambysheva, Forbes, 23 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for collateral
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The rebel group’s capture of swathes of the east and valuable mineral deposits has fanned fears of a wider war.—
Reuters,
CNN,
24 Feb. 2025
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Zelensky has instructed his team to draft a counterproposal that includes explicit security guarantees, while still allowing the U.S. access to its mineral deposits.—
Mark Joseph,
Newsweek,
23 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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Waldock said the helicopter pilots, with their night vision goggles interfering with their peripheral vision, may have wrongly focused on a plane that took off just before the collision.—
Gary Fields,
Los Angeles Times,
15 Feb. 2025
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The worms migrate through the blood or along peripheral nerves to get to the central nervous system.—
Ars Technica,
Ars Technica,
13 Feb. 2025
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At stake is coverage for roughly 79 million people enrolled in Medicaid and its related Children's Health Insurance Program.—
Phil Galewitz,
NPR,
20 Feb. 2025
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Questions remain related to diet, lifestyle, exposure to new pathogens -- such as bird flu and COVID-19 -- chemicals like pesticides and plastics and the impact of environmental and genetic factors in different populations remain, the researchers said.—
Julia Jacobo,
ABC News,
19 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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Less than a month into his second term, Trump booted a portion of the Kennedy Center's board of trustees (prompting additional members to resign) and installed himself as the new chair.—
Savannah Kuchar,
USA TODAY,
15 Feb. 2025
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The Denali Reserve package, adding an additional $3K, which added performance suspension, Bose 16-speaker upgrade, 22-inch wheels and panoramic sunroof.—
Marc D Grasso,
Hartford Courant,
15 Feb. 2025
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The City Council’s Finance Committee last week recommended approval of bonds to help finance the conversion of the Humboldt Park United Methodist Church and its 12 associated residential units into a 22-unit housing development.—
The Editorial Board,
Chicago Tribune,
16 Feb. 2025
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Manchester City may not have done too much winning on the pitch this season, but their victory over the Premier League in relation to the associated party transactions (APT) rules is a significant one.—
Dan Sheldon,
The Athletic,
15 Feb. 2025
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But the ballplayer stuff, that was just icing on the cake.—
Daniel Brown,
The Athletic,
16 Feb. 2025
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Then, two days later, the stuff about him having a restraining order came out.—
Gillian Telling,
People.com,
15 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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Unleashing American Energy paused the supplemental funding from the IIJA, meaning that the families who received the grant in January now must pay for it with their next electric bill.—
Josh Hammer,
Newsweek,
14 Feb. 2025
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Lynch revealed last year that he’d been diagnosed with emphysema and needed to rely on supplemental oxygen after having been a smoker since the age of 8.—
Jami Ganz,
New York Daily News,
8 Feb. 2025
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Then there was family lore accompanied by contemporaneous sources that proved documentable.—
Rachel Elspeth Gross,
Forbes,
2 Jan. 2025
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Queen eventually was fully truthful about his recollection of that Jan. 26, 2023, meeting and admitted to fabricating contemporaneous notes about that meeting.—
Liam Adams,
The Tennessean,
16 Oct. 2024
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“Collateral.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/collateral. Accessed 1 Mar. 2025.
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