MANNED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does manned mean? 

• MANNED (adjective)
  The adjective MANNED has 1 sense:

1. having a crew

  Familiarity information: MANNED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MANNED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Having a crew

Context example:

a manned earth satellite was considered a necessary research step

Antonym:

unmanned (lacking a crew)

 Context examples 

Its plans include establishing a permanent manned space station, a manned lunar landing, and eventually probes to Mars.

(Chinese Rover Making Tracks on Dark Side of the Moon, VOA)

On March 18, 1965, he performed the first manned extravehicular activity (EVA), or "spacewalk", remaining alone outside the spacecraft for just over twelve minutes.

(Cosmonaut Alexei Leonov dies at age 85, Wikinews)

“Only one of the gigs is being manned, sir,” I added; “the crew of the other most likely going round by shore to cut us off.”

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

My men were sent by an equal division into both the pirate ships, and my sloop new manned.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

But he was as cunning as he was cruel, and at the first whisper of coming trouble he had secretly conveyed his treasures aboard a ship which was manned by devoted adherents.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Admiral Nelson can get his ships manned.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

They were making out to me, in an agitated way—I don't know how, for the little I could hear I was scarcely composed enough to understand—that the lifeboat had been bravely manned an hour ago, and could do nothing; and that as no man would be so desperate as to attempt to wade off with a rope, and establish a communication with the shore, there was nothing left to try; when I noticed that some new sensation moved the people on the beach, and saw them part, and Ham come breaking through them to the front.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Vodaphone Germany, Nokia, and Audi are working on a mobile network and robotic vehicles that are part of a private expedition to the moon, timed to coincide with the 50th anniversary year of the first manned lunar landing.

(Moon to Get Its Own Mobile Network, VOA)

God help the poor souls that manned her—coral long ago.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

I cannot promise you a first-rate, but at least it shall be a 64-gun ship, and I can tell you that there is much to be done with a handy, well-manned, well-found 64-gun ship.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)