HOW TO PRONOUNCE
collateral
/kəˈlætɚəl/
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The second syllable is strongest.
The stressed vowel is the one in cat. Keep the vowels after it lighter; the doubled l in the spelling does not require a pause.
4 syllables · Stress on syllable 2
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“The lender asked for additional collateral.”
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CMU Pronouncing Dictionary ↗What does collateral mean?
adjective
- Parallel, in the same vein, side by side.
- Corresponding; accompanying, concomitant.
- Being aside from the main subject, target, or goal.
More meanings (13)
adjective
- Of an indirect ancestral relationship, as opposed to lineal descendency.
- Relating to a collateral in the sense of an obligation or security.
- Expensive to the extent of being paid through a loan.
- Coming or directed along the side.
- Acting in an indirect way.
- Having the phloem and xylem adjacent.
noun
- A security or guarantee (usually an asset) pledged for the repayment of a loan if one cannot procure enough funds to repay.
- A branch of a bodily part or system of organs.
- Printed materials or content of electronic media used to enhance sales of products (short form of collateral material).
- A thinner blood vessel providing an alternate route to blood flow in case the main vessel becomes occluded.
- An instance of hitting two or more targets, often enemy players, with a single shot, usually when they are lined up behind each other.
- (archaic) A collateral (not linear) family member.
- (archaic) A contemporary or rival.
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IPA pronunciation
/kəˈlætɚəl/
Pronunciation used in the listening tip.
CMU Pronouncing Dictionary ↗Pronunciation varies by speaker and region. About these dictionary pronunciations.
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There was yet another motive for the siege of Charleston, considered without reference to collateral or contingent events.
Difficulties are multiplied when we pause for a moment to think of Edison's influence on collateral branches of business.
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Her ancestors had been people of distinction in Virginia before a collateral branch of the main stock had settled in North Carolina.
So it probably will be with many whole collateral lines of descent, which will be conquered by later and improved lines of descent.
I was this morning told an anecdote from the Dorset family that is no bad collateral evidence of the Jacobitism Of the Queen'S four last years.