drone

IPA: drˈoʊn

A male ant, bee or wasp, which does not work but can fertilize the queen.
(now rare) Someone who does not work; a lazy person, an idler.
(metonymically): One who performs menial or tedious work.
A remotely operated vehicle:
(metonymically): An aircraft operated by remote control, especially an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV).
(expansion of the sense "an unmanned or remotely operated aircraft"): (chiefly military) Any remotely-operated vehicle (ROV), such as a tank or boat, especially when multiple such vehicles are operated from a larger vessel.
(Uganda) A Toyota HiAce or a similar van, especially one used by Ugandan state agents to kidnap opposition members.
(chiefly Internet slang, derogatory) A person without the ability to think critically and independently, especially one who follows a group blindly; a non-player character.
A low-pitched hum or buzz.
(music) One of the fixed-pitch pipes on a bagpipe.
(music, uncountable) A genre of music that uses repeated lengthy droning sounds.
A humming or deep murmuring sound.
A surname.

Examples of "drone" in Sentences

In Google you will find that the U.S. has killed hundreds in drone attacks.
A Predator drone is very early technology and costs somewhere between $5 – 10 Million.
The drone is merely the product at the end of the production and logistical system, NOT the production and logistical system ITSELF.
Junaid Khan at Pro-Pakistanannounced the death with his post “Baitullah Mehsud killed in drone strike” and gave a detailed round up of Mehsud's life:
When people hear the word 'drone' they automatically think of the huge military-type aircraft equipped with weapons, said Lt. Chad Gann of the Arlington police department.
� SHAPIRO: Now we have reported on this program that there has been an increase in drone attacks in the Pakistan-Afghanistan border region, just in the last couple of weeks.
Indeed, the surge in drone strikes over the past four weeks has to a large extent targeted elements of a network led by Jalaluddin Haqqani, a militant regarded as a close ally of Pakistan's powerful Inter-Services Intelligence directorate.