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unstaffed en · ADJ

Etymology

From un- + staffed.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Without staff, or workers.
    • The RMT says that some unstaffed stations cater for hundreds of thousands of passengers each year, citing as examples Barry Island (867,598 passengers in 2018-19), Dumbarton East (453,010) and East Worthing (424,176). 2020 January 29, “Network News: Motion in support of station staff”, in Rail, page 25:
    • 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: