col·lat·er·al
noun/kəˈlætərəl/
/kəˈlætərəl/
[uncountable] (finance)- property or something valuable that you promise to give to somebody if you cannot pay back money that you borrow
抵押物;担保品 - We had put our house up as collateral for our bank loan.
我们把房子作为银行贷款的抵押品。
Word Originlate Middle English (as an adjective): from medieval Latin collateralis, from col- ‘together with’ + lateralis (from latus, later- ‘side’). Sense (1) of the noun (originally US) is from the phrase collateral security, denoting something pledged in addition to the main obligation of a contract. - We had put our house up as collateral for our bank loan.