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

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

Her absence became a punchline at the 2016 Emmy Awards when host Jimmy Kimmel swiped her supporting actress trophy, saying they wouldn’t mail it but that she could get it at the lost and found.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 27, 2024

The unnamed man got lost and found himself without phone signal after being left by colleagues who went ahead without him, the Chaffee County Search and Rescue team said.

From BBC • Aug. 29, 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

I cried for Sir Savien and Aloine, for love lost and found and lost again, at cruel fate and man’s folly.

From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss