A library which rents books and other material for a fee.
〈美〉（收费的）租书图书馆
Example sentencesExamples
The emergence of widely-available media resources primarily on videotape in the last 20 years has reduced reliance on rental libraries.
The DVD rental library, which boasts of an exhaustive collection of movies ranging from current blockbusters to all-time classics and a mind-boggling range of world cinema, attracts cineastes in droves.
Both institutions were profit-seeking rental libraries designed to appeal to the mass market.
Definition of rental library in US English:
rental library
noun
US
A library which rents books and other material for a fee.
〈美〉（收费的）租书图书馆
Example sentencesExamples
Both institutions were profit-seeking rental libraries designed to appeal to the mass market.
The DVD rental library, which boasts of an exhaustive collection of movies ranging from current blockbusters to all-time classics and a mind-boggling range of world cinema, attracts cineastes in droves.
The emergence of widely-available media resources primarily on videotape in the last 20 years has reduced reliance on rental libraries.