What is another word for collaterals?

Pronunciation: [kəlˈatəɹə͡lz] (IPA)

Collaterals refer to assets that are pledged as security to secure a loan or other financial obligation. However, there are several synonyms for collaterals that can be used interchangeably, including guarantees, pledges, securities, assets, and bonds. Guarantees are promises to take responsibility if a loan is not repaid, while pledges are assets that are put up as collateral. Securities refer to financial instruments that can be bought or sold, while assets refer to anything of value that can be used as collateral. Lastly, bonds are financial instruments that represent a borrower's commitment to repay a loan with interest. All of these synonyms convey the same idea of assets that are pledged to secure financial obligations.

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Usage examples for Collaterals

Would you believe, Jack-that he laughed and said it was an old story; that Garry had no business to be speculating; that he had told him a dozen times to keep out of the Street; that if Garry had any collaterals of any kind, he would loan him ten thousand dollars or any other sum, but that he had no good money to throw after bad.
"Peter A Novel of Which He is Not the Hero"
F. Hopkinson Smith
Galton's theory, that potentialities not utilized by individuals or by their direct descendants may miss a generation or two, opens a wide field of thought, and collaterals may draw from the original source what was never suspected.
"An Autobiography"
Catherine Helen Spence
More particularly, the sum of tendencies to act in a certain way, which we call "character," is often to be traced through a long series of progenitors and collaterals.
"Aphorisms and Reflections from the works of T. H. Huxley"
Thomas Henry Huxley

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