collaterally
/kəˈlætərəli/
adverb
- In a way that is secondary or indirect, especially in relation to a main issue or effect.
- She was collaterally involved in the project through her support role.
- The damage to the environment was collaterally caused by the mining operation.
- The new policy collaterally affected small businesses, though that wasn't its main goal.
- In a way that is related through a side branch of a family, not a direct ancestor or descendant.
- The inheritance passed collaterally to a cousin rather than to a child.
- The estate was divided collaterally among several distant relatives.
- They are collaterally related through a great-grandparent's sibling.
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