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lost properties

lost properties is the plural of lost property.

Meaning of lost property

Noun

lost property (usually uncountable, plural lost properties)

  1. (UK, usually) A help desk or department in a store, mall, or other such facility where customers who have lost an item can inquire as to whether it has been found and turned in; a lost and found.
    • Lockwood is the junction for the picturesque branch to Meltham, where an old lost-property book recorded the finding of a "bow with two arrows" in a train, in 1873.1951 October, William B. Stocks, “A Few Miles from Huddersfield”, in Railway Magazine, page 701
  2. (usually) Property that is found in such a state as to make it likely that the original owner unintentionally ceased to be in possession of the property, and would be unable to locate the property.

Questions about lost properties

What is lost properties the plural of?
Lost properties is the plural of lost property.

Words near lost properties in the dictionary

  1. lost one's virginity
  2. lost one's wits
  3. lost oneself
  4. lost out
  5. lost patience
  6. lost properties
  7. lost property
  8. lost river
  9. Lost River Range
  10. Lost River sucker
  11. lost rivers

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