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COLLATERALIZE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does collateralize mean?
• COLLATERALIZE (verb)
The verb COLLATERALIZE has 1 sense:
1. pledge as a collateral
Familiarity information: COLLATERALIZE used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
| Conjugation: |
Present simple: I / you / we / they collateralize ... he / she / it collateralizes
Past simple: collateralized
Past participle: collateralized
-ing form: collateralizing
... he / she / it collateralizes Past simple: collateralized
Past participle: collateralized
-ing form: collateralizing
Sense 1
Meaning:
Pledge as a collateral
Classified under:
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
Context example:
The loan was collateralized by government bonds
Hypernyms (to "collateralize" is one way to...):
pledge (give as a guarantee)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
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