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Definition of "unmanned" []

  • Not crewed: an unmanned spacecraft. (adjective)
  • Obsolete Not trained. Used of a hawk. (adjective)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "unmanned" in a sentence
  • "Our spaceship of state still seems remarkably addicted to phasers and photon torpedoes, an addiction we refuse to own up to, even as we send one variety of our own spaceships, which we call unmanned aerial drones, over the tribal lands of Pakistan and Afghanistan armed with Hellfire missiles."
  • "The U.S. does have two types of what they call unmanned aerial vehicles or UAVs in its inventory."
  • "There has been a sharp increase in unmanned missile strikes in the tribal region, with 21 attacks in September alone."