noun · neutral

drone

UK/drəʊn/US/droʊn/DRONE

Band 7+speakingtask2

an unmanned aircraft controlled remotely or autonomously, often used for photography, delivery or surveillance

Examples

Farmers use drones to monitor crop health from the air.

Delivery companies are testing drones for last-mile drops.

In the speaking test I mentioned that a drone helped survey local floods.

Band 8 sentence

In recent years municipal authorities have deployed drones to map flood damage quickly and at low cost.

Collocations

  • fly a drone
  • commercial drone
  • drone delivery

Word family

drones noun (plural)

Common mistakes

robotdrone

fly a robotfly a drone

Say it for a higher band

5robot6unmanned vehicle7+drone

Synonyms

UAV (unmanned aerial vehicle)

Easily confused

robot

The drone flew over the field while the ground robot collected soil samples.

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