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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
lost property
noun
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▪ Basically the police will regard the child as lost property to be returned as soon as possible.
▪ He looks like lost property now.
▪ If a name is available, librarians attempt to contact the owners of lost property.
▪ Since plaintiffs naturally inclined to value their lost property exorbitantly, defendants did have reason to think seriously about restoring it.
Wiktionary
lost property

n. 1 (context British English) A help desk or department in a store, mall, or other such facility where customers who have lost an item can inquire as to whether it has been found and turned in; a lost and found. 2 (context legal English) Property that is found in such a state as to make it likely that the original owner unintentionally ceased to be in possession of the property, and would be unable to locate the property.

Wikipedia
Lost Property (novel)

Lost Property (ISBN 9780670029433) is a young adult novel by Australian author James Moloney. First published in 2005, it is about a teenage boy in Sydney who loses direction in his life. It was a Children's Book Council of Australia Honour Book for 2006, and was also shortlisted for the ABPA Book Design Awards, the Children's Peace Lit Award, the New South Wales State Literary Award and the NSW Premier's Literary Award.

Usage examples of "lost property".

He alone could recover the lost property, and therefore he was bound to do so.

Sam had talked to over a hundred of these men, and all of them had lost property or family to abolitionist raiders of one stripe or another.

Some men who'd lost property began to shout at him and shake their fists and threaten him—.