Definition & Meaning of "interlibrary loan"in English

Interlibrary loan

a service where libraries lend books or other materials to each other, allowing a library's patrons to borrow items from other libraries

Grammatical Information

Animacy status

Abstract

Composition

Compound

Countable

singular

not gender specific

Plural form

interlibrary loans

Examples

I requested the book through ILL since our library didn’t have it.

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