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Collateral vs Rent - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between collateral and rent

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 rent is a payment made by a tenant at intervals in order to occupy a property.

As an adjective collateral

is parallel, along the same vein, side by side.

As a verb rent is

to occupy premises in exchange for rent.

collateral

English

Adjective

(-)
  • parallel, along the same vein, side by side.
  • Corresponding; accompanying, concomitant.
  • * Wordsworth
  • Yet the attempt may give / Collateral interest to this homely tale.
  • Being aside from the main subject; tangential, subordinate, ancillary.
  • Although not a direct cause, the border skirmish was certainly a collateral incitement for the war.
  • * Macaulay
  • That he [Atterbury] was altogether in the wrong on the main question, and on all the collateral questions springing out of it, is true.
  • (family ) of an indirect ancestral relationship, as opposed to lineal descendency.
  • ''Uncles, aunts, cousins, nephews and nieces are collateral relatives.
  • * 1885 , , The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night , volume 5,
  • The pure blood all descends from five collateral lines called Al-Khamsah (the Cinque).
  • 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.
  • collateral pressure
  • * Shakespeare
  • collateral light
  • Acting in an indirect way.
  • * Shakespeare
  • 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 security

    Noun

    (wikipedia collateral) (en noun)
  • 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
  • ''Besides the arteries blood streams through numerous veins we call collaterals
  • (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.
  • Derived terms

    * marketing collateral

    See also

    * mortgage

    rent

    English

    Etymology 1

    (etyl) rente, from .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A payment made by a tenant at intervals in order to occupy a property.
  • * , chapter=17
  • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=This time was most dreadful for Lilian. Thrown on her own resources and almost penniless, she maintained herself and paid the rent of a wretched room near the hospital by working as a charwoman, sempstress, anything.}}
  • A similar payment for the use of equipment or a service.
  • (economics) A profit from possession of a valuable right, as a restricted license to engage in a trade or business.
  • An object for which rent is charged or paid.
  • (obsolete) income; revenue
  • * Gower
  • [Bacchus] a waster was and all his rent / In wine and bordel he dispent.
  • * (Alexander Pope)
  • So bought an annual rent or two, / And liv'd, just as you see I do.
    Derived terms
    * rental * renting * rent strike

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To occupy premises in exchange for rent.
  • To grant occupation in return for rent.
  • To obtain or have temporary possession of an object (e.g. a movie) in exchange for money.
  • To be leased or let for rent.
  • The house rents for five hundred dollars a month.

    Etymology 2

    (etyl) . Variant form of renden.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A tear or rip in some surface.
  • * 1913 ,
  • The brown paint on the door was so old that the naked wood showed between the rents .
  • A division or schism.
  • Verb

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