lost and found

American  

Or lost-and-found

noun

1. a room in a public place for items left behind and from which the owners may retrieve them.

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Example Sentences

People kept partying but I needed to hunt for the lost and found station, which had thoughtfully posted a picture of my mitten online.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 25, 2026

Cash, credit cards, and doctor’s office cards — it would have been easy to leave it with the driver or at a random lost and found.

From Salon • Mar. 26, 2025

In Sweeney's case, the prosecution told the court the Facebook group she posted in usually carries items about local events and lost and found items, and has just over 5000 members.

From BBC • Aug. 14, 2024

Zoe Kurland: And today, we throw our hat in the ring with the story of Eunice: how the mother of the greenhouse gas effect got lost and found.

From Scientific American • Nov. 9, 2023

Maybe airports lost and found planes all the time, and that was just one of those things nobody had mentioned in the Sky Trails orientation.

From "Found" by Margaret Peterson Haddix