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nontreasure

nontreasure noun: something or someone that is not a treasure.

Noun

nontreasure (countable and uncountable, plural nontreasures)

  1. Something or someone that is not a treasure.
    • The hundreds of other wrecks that are nontreasure ships are being destroyed by people, treasure hunters, including professional salvors, who do not have the expertise to determine the difference between them.1982, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries, Oceanography Miscellaneous
    • It's all treasure—in which case, it's all junk. There's no treasure in the world save for its relationship to nontreasure.2012, Tim Clark, The Employee Engagement Mindset, →ISBN

Examples of nontreasure in a sentence

  • In some cases, the presentation of this theory has been useful to stop treasure and nontreasure artifacts from being legally and scientifically recovered by the private sector.2012, Robert MacKinnon, Dallas Murphy, Treasure Hunter: Diving for Gold on North America's Death Coast, →ISBN:
  • And a rock that would fall on it for good measure, which couldn't be dug up because no one would want that particular nontreasure.2014, Dexter G. Thompson, In Remembrance of Feelings, →ISBN:

Forms of nontreasure

pluralnontreasures
alternative formnon-treasure

Origin of nontreasure

From non- + treasure.

Questions about nontreasure

What does nontreasure mean?
Nontreasure means something or someone that is not a treasure.
How do you use nontreasure in a sentence?
In some cases, the presentation of this theory has been useful to stop treasure and nontreasure artifacts from being legally and scientifically recovered by the private sector.
What part of speech is nontreasure?
Nontreasure is a noun.
What is the plural of nontreasure?
The plural of nontreasure is nontreasures.

Words near nontreasure in the dictionary

  1. nontraversability
  2. nontraversable
  3. nontraversing
  4. nontreasonable
  5. nontreasonous
  6. nontreasure
  7. nontreasures
  8. nontreasury
  9. nontreated
  10. nontreatment
  11. nontreatments

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