A euphemisim often used in the media and military in regard to civillian deaths. Here are accepted definitions from a dictionary for collateral Situated or running side by side; parallel. Coinciding in tendency or effect; concomitant or accompanying. Serving to support or corroborate: collateral evidence. Of a secondary nature; subordinate: collateral target damage from a bombing run. Of, relating to, or guaranteed by a security pledged against the performance of an obligation: a collateral loan. Having an ancestor in common but descended from a different line.

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