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unstaffed

unstaffed adjective: without staff, or workers.

Adjective

unstaffed (not comparable)

  1. Without staff, or workers.
    • Newbury (West Fields) which was added later, is on the east side, and is permanently unstaffed.1954 November, P. W. Gentry, “The Lambourn Valley Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 744
    • 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.2009 August 30, The Associated Press, “Indian Moon Orbiter Loses Contact”, in New York Times

Origin of unstaffed

From un- + staffed.

Questions about unstaffed

What does unstaffed mean?
Unstaffed means without staff, or workers.
What part of speech is unstaffed?
Unstaffed is an adjective.

Words near unstaffed in the dictionary

  1. unstacked
  2. unstacker
  3. unstackers
  4. unstacking
  5. unstacks
  6. unstaffed
  7. unstage
  8. unstageability
  9. unstageable
  10. unstaged
  11. unstagedness

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