unattended en · ADJ
Etymology
From un- + attended.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) Not attended; without persons present.
System administrators may schedule an unattended installation of the software.
Considerable excitement was caused on the L.M.S.R. Aberdeen line out of Perth recently when a shunting engine in Perth North goods yard, whose driver and fireman were absent, was accidentally set in motion by a shunter and set off unattended on to the main line.
1941 October, “Notes and News: A Highland Runaway”, in Railway Magazine, page 469:The meeting went largely unattended, since it took place on Christmas Eve.
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(not-comparable) Not attended to; not receiving attention.
I have been attempting to persuade gay organizations and leaders to take this approach, without concrete results. It is a serious failure of gay leadership not to have organized open defiance of sodomy laws, and my own attitude is not to wait for leaders when there is an unattended need.
1987 August 15, Tom Keske, “Open Defiance of Sodomy Laws”, in Gay Community News, volume 15, number 5, page 4:The fire was caused by an unattended electric blanket.
Deriveds
unattendedly · unattended installation
Translations (9)
es sin supervisión / vigilancia (not attended) · eo seneskorte (not attended) · hu gazdátlan (not attended) · hu kíséret/felügyelet/őrizet nélküli (not attended) · es desatendido (not attended) · hu őrizetlen (not attended) · ka დაუსწრებელი (not attended) · es descuidado (not attended) · de unbeaufsichtigt (not attended)