Meaning of Finder | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A surname from German.
2. One who finds or discovers something.
3. A device, such as a viewfinder, used to locate a target or other object of interest.
4. A person who picks up scraps and oddments to sell to make a living.
   UK, historical

Equivalents

Examples

“Finders keepers, losers weepers.”

“The finder of treasure trove owns it against the landowner and everyone else except the true owner.”

“Perhaps some electrical finder could have been developed so delicate that it could have located the source of all this spreading joy and fortune.”

“Even the Whitechapel meat-market is less the scene of prey, for it is a series of shops, while Leadenhall presents many stalls, and the finders seem loath to enter shops without some plausible pretext.”

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