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nontreasure en · NOUN

Etymology

From non- + treasure.

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) Something or someone that is not a treasure.
   • It's all treasure—in which case, it's all junk. There's no treasure in the world save for its relationship to nontreasure. 2012, Tim Clark, The Employee Engagement Mindset, →ISBN:
   • And a rock that would fall on it for good measure, which couldn't be dug up because no one would want that particular nontreasure. 2014, Dexter G. Thompson, In Remembrance of Feelings, →ISBN:
   • The hundreds of other wrecks that are nontreasure ships are being destroyed by people, treasure hunters, including professional salvors, who do not have the expertise to determine the difference between them. 1982, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries, Oceanography Miscellaneous:
   • In some cases, the presentation of this theory has been useful to stop treasure and nontreasure artifacts from being legally and scientifically recovered by the private sector. 2012, Robert MacKinnon, Dallas Murphy, Treasure Hunter: Diving for Gold on North America's Death Coast, →ISBN:

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