also: ぶにん · むにん
That island is uninhabited.
I waited for the train at an unstaffed station.
shorthanded; lack of help
Only with reading ぶにん / むにん
Rare sense meaning a shortage of people to do work. Restricted to readings ぶにん and むにん, but even those are uncommon; 人手不足 is the normal modern expression.
The shop was shorthanded today, so I had to do everything by myself.
That village became deserted due to depopulation.
This factory operates unmanned.
The boat drifted ashore on a deserted coast.
drone; unmanned aircraft
unmanned station
Rare reading for the 'shorthanded' sense; むじん is overwhelmingly more common.