Definition of "lost-and-found" []

• Repository in a public building where lost articles can be kept until their owners reclaim them (noun)

WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.

• "This sense of lost-and-found runs through the story, but in the way steel beams support a house."
• "Crews also try to pick up photos and valuables they find and send them to a lost-and-found center for survivors to sift through, he said."
• "Money winds up in government lost-and-found agencies for many reasons, including:"