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🇰🇷Korean Source WordCode: KO

담보

Pronunciation / Transliteration: dambo

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
collateral/kəˈlætərəl/
nounadjectiveCEFR B2 (Upper)Top #2500 frequency
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🇰🇷 Example Sentence in Korean:

"그들은 대출을 위해 집을 담보로 제공했다."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    Something pledged as security for repayment of a loan, to be forfeited in the event of default.

    "They put up their house as collateral for the bank loan."
As adjective
  1. 1

    Additional but subordinate; secondary.

    "The military operation resulted in regrettable collateral damage."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Late Middle English: from medieval Latin collateralis, from co- 'together with' + lateralis 'of the side' (from latus 'side').

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