finder

plural finders

1. One who finds or discovers something; a discoverer.

   Finders keepers, losers weepers.

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   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. UKhistoricalA 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

plural Finders

1. A surname from German.