NOUN
- repository in a public building where lost articles can be kept until their owners reclaim them
How To Use lost-and-found In A Sentence
- Call a local animal rescue centre: they keep lost-and-found databases. Times, Sunday Times
- He took it to the building's lost-and-found department in breach of security guidelines requiring all property to be screened. Times, Sunday Times
- It's a herky-jerky journey - some of it fascinating, much of it dizzyingly random - as eccentric and chaotic as a lost-and-found bin. Undone by a house of dreams
- There are women who will tell you they stole a jumper from a lost-and-found box in a church rather than reveal the store where they purchased it. Times, Sunday Times
- the lost-and-found department
- In truth, the eight-foot white marble sarcophagus that Vatican archaelogists uncovered beneath the basilica St. Paul Outside the Walls is more a question of lost-and-found than a brand-new find.
