collateralize
Americanverb (used with object)
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to secure (a loan) with collateral.
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to pledge (property, securities, etc.) as collateral.
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of collateralize
First recorded in 1940–45; collateral + -ize
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They are used to price, hedge and collateralize countless transactions in unrelated markets.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026
“To the contrary, according to the Kennedy Center’s Chief Financial Officer, the Kennedy Center has put a significant portion of WNO’s money at risk by using it to collateralize the Kennedy Center’s line of credit.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 12, 2026
SORKIN: And were you using FTT and the Serum and other things to collateralize the loans at BlockFi, do you think?
From New York Times ● Dec. 1, 2022
Faraday Future had argued it wouldn’t be able to raise new investment without assets to collateralize, since it still has no current product or revenue.
From The Verge ● Dec. 31, 2018
Another key small business benefit: Many entrepreneurs also collateralize their houses to obtain business loans, and increasing values will benefit them too.
From Inc ● Jan. 29, 2013
I think that the rating agencies will wind up more embarrassed by their ratings for states than they were with their ratings for collateralized mortgage obligations before the 2008 housing collapse.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 31, 2026
The regulations govern collateralized loan obligations, funds backed by pools of corporate debt from junk-rated companies.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 2026
The firm is growing other businesses like collateralized loan obligations and private credit, which pay lower fees than hedge funds but can grow much bigger.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 4, 2026
Bear Stearns’s funds were leveraged at a 3-to-1 ratio, stuffed with opaque collateralized debt obligations tied to a collapsing housing market, and the assets ultimately proved nearly worthless.
From MarketWatch ● Mar. 3, 2026
In the process, Goldman Sachs created a security so opaque and complex that it would remain forever misunderstood by investors and rating agencies: the synthetic subprime mortgage bond–backed CDO, or collateralized debt obligation.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
Regulators could raise objections to Musk potentially collateralizing the purchase with Tesla stock, according to former SEC lawyer Tyler Gellasch, who now runs Healthy Markets, a nonprofit organization advocating market reforms.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 25, 2022
Although the arrival of the printing press in the late 15th century didn’t have an immediate effect on manuscript production, it would eventually make books cheap and thus no longer worth collateralizing.
From Time ● Aug. 2, 2016
Investors such as fund managers and short-term traders rely on Treasury securities for activities ranging from securing savings to collateralizing loans.
From Reuters ● Jul. 29, 2011
Fund managers have reduced risk by shortening maturities and increasingly collateralizing their holdings, Viktoria Baklanova, a New York-based analyst at Fitch, said in a telephone interview.
From BusinessWeek ● Jun. 21, 2011
When these came due, "F. A." managed to win an extension from the banks by collateralizing Ohio Goodyear's U. S. Rubber stock.
From Time Magazine Archive
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