Usually means: Securing a loan with assets.
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We found 17 dictionaries that define the word collateralize:

General (14 matching dictionaries)
  1. collateralize: Merriam-Webster
  2. collateralize: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. collateralize: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. collateralize: Collins English Dictionary
  5. collateralize: Vocabulary.com
  6. collateralize: Wordnik
  7. collateralize: Wiktionary
  8. collateralize: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. collateralize: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. collateralize: Dictionary.com
  11. collateralize: Rhymezone
  12. collateralize: FreeDictionary.org
  13. collateralize: Mnemonic Dictionary
  14. collateralize: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. collateralize: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  3. collateralize: Financial dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (collateralize)

▸ verb:  To secure a loan or other contract by using collateral.
▸ verb:  To pledge assets as collateral.

Similar:
collateralise, overcollateralize, cross-collateralize, gage, bond, immobilize, coinsure, tie up, countersecure, secure, more...

Opposite:
unsecured, unbacked, non-collateralized

Types:
mortgage, pawn, lien, more...

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Similar:
collateralise, overcollateralize, cross-collateralize, gage, bond, immobilize, coinsure, tie up, countersecure, secure, more...

Opposite:
unsecured, unbacked, non-collateralized

Types:
mortgage, pawn, lien, more...



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