ininternationaltrade, anarrangementin which abankin acountryimportinggoodsreceivesdocumentsshowingthat thegoodshave beensentbut does notpayfor thegoodsuntil it hasreceivedpaymentfrom theimporterComparedocumentary credit(Definition ofdocumentary collectionfrom theCambridge Business English Dictionary? Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofdocumentary collection
documentary collectionThe online catalogue for thedocumentarycollectionenables users to browse lists of all the items acquired since 1985.FromWikipediaThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The bank that has received adocumentarycollectionmay debit the buyer's account and make payment only if authorised by the buyer.FromWikipediaThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Over the projects five-year mandate, numerous case studies will be conducted that will focus on documentary collections and conserving works of art featuring technological content.FromWikipediaThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Research teams work with interdisciplinary scholar networks and generate their own academic activities, publications and documentary collections.FromWikipediaThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.If we compare with people, we could say that the municipality works verbally; it would seem that municipality is in illiteracy in the absence of documentary collections.FromWikipediaThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Drew, however, argues that minority socialist organizations had a political significance transcending their small numbers, and that they have been marginalized in both histories and in documentary collections.From theCambridge English CorpusThese examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.#https://dictionary.cambridge.org//dictionary/english/documentary-collection##
