lost document
Vanished official paper
A lost document is a file, paper, or record that cannot be located or has been inadvertently destroyed.
The term appears in legal and administrative contexts where establishing the contents of missing originals matters: The court allowed secondary evidence to prove the lost document's terms.
In computing, a lost document is typically one closed without saving or corrupted beyond recovery.
- misplacedPut in wrong location
- missingNot present, whereabouts unknown
- gone missingDisappeared without explanation
- paperworkAdministrative written tasks
- fileStored collection of data
filing cabinet · vanished · search · paper chase · needle in haystack · folder · desk · drawer · panic · frantic · search party · misfiled · records · paper trail · shredded · backup · archive · retrieve
- office mistakestypo, billing error, transcription error
- print flawsink smear, bleed, streaks, smudges, smearing