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collateral

• (a) descended from a common ancestor but through different lines
  • cousins are collateral relatives
  • an indirect descendant of the Stuarts
  indirect,
• (s) serving to support or corroborate
  • collateral evidence
  confirmative, confirmatory, corroborative, corroboratory, substantiating, substantiative, validating, validatory, verificatory, verifying, confirming,
• (s) accompany, concomitant
  • collateral target damage from a bombing run
• (s) situated or running side by side
  • collateral ridges of mountains

Nouns

• (n) a security pledged for the repayment of a loan

Synonyms

indirect confirmative confirmatory corroborative corroboratory substantiating substantiative validating validatory verificatory verifying confirming

Antonyms

lineal direct

See also

related

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