crew

IPA: krˈu

noun

  • A group of people together
  • (obsolete) Any company of people; an assemblage; a throng.
  • A group of people (often staff) manning and operating a large facility or piece of equipment such as a factory, ship, boat, airplane, or spacecraft.
  • A group of people working together on a task.
  • (art) The group of workers on a dramatic production who are not part of the cast.
  • (informal, often derogatory) A close group of friends.
  • (often derogatory) A set of individuals lumped together by the speaker.
  • (scouting) A group of Rovers.
  • (slang, hip-hop) A hip-hop or b-boying group.
  • (rowing) A rowing team manning a single shell.
  • A person in a crew
  • (plural: crew) A member of the crew of a vessel or plant.
  • (art, plural: crew) A worker on a dramatic production who is not part of the cast.
  • (nautical, plural: crew) A member of a ship's company who is not an officer.
  • (sports, rowing, US, uncountable) The sport of competitive rowing.
  • (Britain, dialectal) A pen for livestock such as chickens or pigs
  • The Manx shearwater.
  • A habitational surname from Welsh.
  • A male given name transferred from the surname.
  • A townland in County Antrim, Northern Ireland.
  • A townland in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland.
  • (library science) Acronym of continuous review, evaluation, and weeding.

verb

  • (transitive and intransitive) To be a member of a vessel's crew
  • To be a member of a work or production crew
  • To supply workers or sailors for a crew
  • (nautical) To do the proper work of a sailor
  • (nautical) To take on, recruit (new) crew
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Examples of "crew" in Sentences

  • The security and stability of my crew is the most important thing to me as a PI.
  • When you watch, notice that the pilots are all men, and the cabin crew is all female.
  • The camera crew is always active, following each survivor throughout the day and night.
  • "Working the chain crew is a way to keep a hand in the game," says Garner, a retired teacher from Oceanside, Calif.
  • Mike: My husband and I just visited Bora Bora with a great group of friends --- the crew is there now working on the set.
  • While this crew is there you land (using private, international, and EELV's), more power systems (five-seven total) to provide 1 megawatt of power.
  • Cause it just so happens that Unite, the union of British Airways cabin crew, is on strike, meaning all flights between Glasgow and London are canceled.
  • Now this crew is the True Activist Court and Bush stacked it well in Roberts – a young guy we'll have to tolerate for some long time, unless we get lucky and fate intervenes!
  • And this: The danger facing the crew is a "linguistic virus" that spreads by forcing its victims to utter a certain contagious phrase that kills the listener in a gruesome way.

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