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loan collection

British  

noun

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

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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

There was also art to be seen: indigenous paintings of the Southwest and a loan collection of Cezanne, Renoir, Matisse, Picasso, Modigliani, Braque, Leger.

From Time Magazine Archive

On that same visit Lafayette presented the youngest child, Britannia, a little girl of nine, with a lovely little desk, now in the National Museum in the loan collection of her grandson, Walter G. Peter.

From A Portrait of Old George Town by Peter, Grace Dunlop