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lost and found

lost and found noun: a department, service or location where items that are found can be claimed by their owners.

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.
    • It’s a shame all the pain / That they send you through / When you’re trying to get ahead / But when the gossip starts getting you down / And you feel like your heart is in the lost and found1978, Shalamar, “Leave It All Up to Love”, in Disco Gardens

lost and found meaning in Urdu and Persian

lost and found in Urdu

lost and found
امانت amānat

lost and found in Persian

department, service or location where items that are found can be claimed by their owners
قسمت اشیای گمشده

Synonyms of lost and found

Forms of lost and found

plurallost and founds
alternative formlost-and-found

Questions about lost and found

What does lost and found mean?
Lost and found means a department, service or location where items that are found can be claimed by their owners.
What is lost and found in Urdu?
Lost and found in Urdu is امانت (amānat). See Lost and found meaning in Urdu.
What part of speech is lost and found?
Lost and found is a noun.
What is the plural of lost and found?
The plural of lost and found is lost and founds.

Words near lost and found in the dictionary

  1. lossmakers
  2. lossmaking
  3. lossproof
  4. lossy
  5. lost
  6. lost and found
  7. lost and founds
  8. lost articles
  9. lost caste
  10. lost cause
  11. lost causes

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Adapted from Wiktionary: lost and found (page history and authors); امانت (Urdu) (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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