finder
nounUK /ˈfaɪndə/ · US /ˈfaɪndəɹ/
Etymology From Middle English findere. By surface analysis, find + -er.
1
One who finds or discovers something; a discoverer.
- Finders keepers, losers weepers.
- The finder of treasure trove owns it against the landowner and everyone else except the true owner.2012, Alan R. Romero, Property Law For Dummies, page 229:
2
A device, such as a viewfinder, used to locate a target or other object of interest.
- Perhaps some electrical finder could have been developed so delicate that it could have located the source of all this spreading joy and fortune.1945, John Steinbeck, Cannery Row:
3
UK, Historical A person who picks up scraps and oddments to sell to make a living.
- 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.1851, Henry Mayhew, London Labour and the London Poor, published 1861:
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Albada finder, comet-finder, ditchfinder, factfinder, fact-finder, faultfinder, finderlist, finder of fact, finderscope, fire finder, fishfinder, gold-finder, key finder, object finder, pathfinder, pure finder, radio direction finder, rangefinder, range finder, rootfinder, statefinder, stud finder, ugly-finder, ugly finder, viewfinder, wayfinder, witchfinder, witch-finder