Respuesta :

a borrower's pledge of specific property to a lender, saying that they will repay the loan.

Step-by-step explanation:

In a secured loan, collateral is the security that is kept against the failure of paying off the loan payment from the side of borrowers.

That means if the borrowers is not able to pay off the loan in future due to some circumstances, then the lender will use his collateral as a valuable property and his property becomes the property of lender of the same amount of the loan.