"nontreasure" meaning in All languages combined

See nontreasure on Wiktionary

Noun [English]

Forms: nontreasures [plural]
Etymology: non- + treasure Etymology templates: {{prefix|en|non|treasure}} non- + treasure Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} nontreasure (countable and uncountable, plural nontreasures)
  1. Something or someone that is not a treasure. Tags: countable, uncountable Synonyms: non-treasure
    Sense id: en-nontreasure-en-noun-cW3ZbKtN Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms prefixed with non-

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        {
          "ref": "1982, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries, Oceanography Miscellaneous",
          "text": "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.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2012, Tim Clark, The Employee Engagement Mindset",
          "text": "It's all treasure—in which case, it's all junk. There's no treasure in the world save for its relationship to nontreasure.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2012, Robert MacKinnon, Dallas Murphy, Treasure Hunter: Diving for Gold on North America's Death Coast",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
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          "ref": "2014, Dexter G. Thompson, In Remembrance of Feelings",
          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "2012, Robert MacKinnon, Dallas Murphy, Treasure Hunter: Diving for Gold on North America's Death Coast",
          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "2014, Dexter G. Thompson, In Remembrance of Feelings",
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