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rental collection

rental collection

3.7
A group of books you can rent for a small daily fee
  • noun
translation icon : colección de alquiler
  • She borrowed three novels from the rental collection and returned them the next week.

Examples

  • Customers often visit the bookstore's rental collection to borrow recent bestsellers.

  • The library added a new rental collection for popular fiction titles.

  • The library has a great rental collection.

  • Have you checked the rental collection at the new bookstore?

  • Many students enjoy borrowing books from the rental collection at the university library.

  • The bookstore's rental collection includes a variety of cookbooks that you can rent for a few days.

  • For summer reading, I found several interesting novels in the rental collection of my local library.

Surface Forms

rental collection singular
rental collections plural

Morphology

rental + collection

The meaning is directly and transparently derived from combining 'rental' (for rent) with 'collection' (a set of items): it denotes a set of items offered for rent. This is a straightforward compositional pattern found across languages and would be clear to a B1 learner who knows both constituent words.

Etymology

The phrase rental collection comes from the simple picture of a shelf or box marked rental holding a set of books or movies as a collection for people to borrow. That's why 'rental collection' means a group of books available 'to rent' for a small fee.