Unoccupied vs Unmanned - What's the difference?
unoccupied | unmanned |
(of a house etc) Not inhabited, especially by a tenant
Not being used; vacant or free
Not employed on a task; idle
(of territory) Not occupied by foreign troops etc
Not operated by a person or a crew.
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As adjectives the difference between unoccupied and unmanned
is that unoccupied is not inhabited, especially by a tenant while unmanned is not operated by a person or a crew.As a verb unmanned is
past tense of unman.unoccupied
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(en adjective)unmanned
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(-)Ed Pilkington
‘Killer robots’ should be banned in advance, UN told, passage=In his submission to the UN, [Christof] Heyns points to the experience of drones. Unmanned aerial vehicles were intended initially only for surveillance, and their use for offensive purposes was prohibited, yet once strategists realised their perceived advantages as a means of carrying out targeted killings, all objections were swept out of the way.}}
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