"collateralize" meaning in English

See collateralize in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Verb

Forms: collateralizes [present, singular, third-person], collateralizing [participle, present], collateralized [participle, past], collateralized [past]
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  1. To secure a loan or other contract by using collateral. Translations (to secure a loan by using collateral): besichern (German), colateralizar (Spanish), avalar (Spanish), afianzar (Spanish)
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  2. To pledge assets as collateral.
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The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: collateralizable, cross-collateralize, overcollateralize Related terms: collateralization

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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