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loan collection

British  

noun

  1. a number of works of art lent by their owners for a temporary public exhibition

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Student loan collection companies, meanwhile, have been overcharging borrowers through processing delays and “billing errors.”

From Seattle Times May 21, 2018

But the bureau distanced itself further from any interest in an overhaul of student loan collection by removing the issue from its long-term regulatory agenda on Wednesday.

From New York Times May 9, 2018

The collection boasts on its website that it has the "largest loan collection of modern and contemporary British art in the world" and is "the most widely circulated of all of Britain's national collections".

From The Guardian Apr. 17, 2010

Joan, a longtime art buff, helped Martin Friedman, director of the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, choose the loan collection from museums in the Middle West.

From Time Magazine Archive

This remarkable achievement, which possesses much sober elegance, formed part of the loan collection of English furniture at the Franco-British Exhibition in London in 1908.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 7 "Cerargyrite" to "Charing Cross" by Various

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