Collateral vs Margin - What's the difference?
collateral | margin |
parallel, along the same vein, side by side.
Corresponding; accompanying, concomitant.
* Wordsworth
Being aside from the main subject; tangential, subordinate, ancillary.
* Macaulay
(family ) of an indirect ancestral relationship, as opposed to lineal descendency.
* 1885 , , The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night , volume 5,
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.
* Shakespeare
Acting in an indirect way.
* Shakespeare
A security or guarantee (usually an asset) pledged for the repayment of a loan if one cannot procure enough funds to repay. (Originally supplied as "accompanying" security.)
A collateral (not linear) family member.
A branch of a bodily part or system of organs
(marketing) 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 gets occluded.
(typography) The edge of the paper that remains blank.
The edge or border of any flat surface.
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(figuratively) The edge defining inclusion in or exclusion from of a set or group.
* 1999 , Pierre François, ''Inlets of the Soul: Contemporary Fiction in English and the Myth of the Fall,
A difference between results, characteristics, scores.
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A permissible difference; allowing some freedom to move within limits.
(finance) The yield or profit; the selling price minus the cost of production.
(finance) Collateral security deposited with a broker to secure him from loss on contracts entered into by him on behalf of his principial, as in the speculative buying and selling of stocks, wheat, etc.
As nouns the difference between collateral and margin
is that collateral is a security or guarantee (usually an asset) pledged for the repayment of a loan if one cannot procure enough funds to repay. (Originally supplied as "accompanying" security. while margin is the edge of the paper that remains blank.As an adjective collateral
is parallel, along the same vein, side by side.As a verb margin is
to add a margin to.collateral
English
Adjective
(-)- Yet the attempt may give / Collateral interest to this homely tale.
- Although not a direct cause, the border skirmish was certainly a collateral incitement for the war.
- That he [Atterbury] was altogether in the wrong on the main question, and on all the collateral questions springing out of it, is true.
- ''Uncles, aunts, cousins, nephews and nieces are collateral relatives.
- The pure blood all descends from five collateral lines called Al-Khamsah (the Cinque).
- collateral pressure
- collateral light
- If by direct or by collateral hand / They find us touched, we will our kingdom give / To you in satisfaction.
Derived terms
* collaterality * collaterally * collateral damage * collateral form * collateral material * collateral securityNoun
(wikipedia collateral) (en noun)- ''Besides the arteries blood streams through numerous veins we call collaterals
Derived terms
* marketing collateralSee also
* mortgagemargin
English
(wikipedia margin)Noun
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- The lobule margins , furthermore, are arched away from the lobe, with the consequence that (when fully inflated) the abaxial leaf surface forms the interior lining of the lobule.
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- As far as space is concerned, Mary Lamb finds herself at the farthest margin of society - among tramps - when the novel begins.
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- margin of error