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Unmanned vs Unstaffed - What's the difference?

unmanned | unstaffed |

As adjectives the difference between unmanned and unstaffed

is that unmanned is not operated by a person or a crew while unstaffed is without staff, or workers.

As a verb unmanned

is past tense of unman.

unmanned

English

Adjective

(-)
  • Not operated by a person or a crew.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-07, author= Ed Pilkington
    • , volume=188, issue=26, page=6, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= ‘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.}}
    .
    an automated e-mail message sent from an unmanned mailbox

    Antonyms

    * manned * crewed

    See also

    * remote-controlled * unstaffed

    Verb

    (head)
  • (unman)

    • unstaffed

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Without staff, or workers.
  • *{{quote-news, year=2009, date=August 30, author=The Associated Press, title=Indian Moon Orbiter Loses Contact, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=India’s national space agency said that communications with its first unstaffed spacecraft to orbit the moon were lost on Saturday and that its scientists were no longer controlling the orbiter. }}