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lost-and-found

lost-and-found is the alternative form of lost and found.

Meaning of lost and found

Noun

lost and found (countable and uncountable, plural lost and founds)

  1. (Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Philippines, US) A department, service or location where items that are found can be claimed by their owners.
    • Well, if you can't find your glasses, then go to lost and found and ask if anyone turned them in.

Forms of lost-and-found

plurallost-and-founds

Questions about lost-and-found

What is lost-and-found the alternative form of?
Lost-and-found is the alternative form of lost and found.

Words near lost-and-found in the dictionary

  1. lost wax
  2. lost weekend
  3. lost weekends
  4. lost with all hands
  5. lost world
  6. lost-and-found
  7. lost-and-founds
  8. lost-wax casting
  9. lost-wax process
  10. Lostaway
  11. Lostaways

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Adapted from Wiktionary: lost-and-found (page history and authors); lost and found (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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