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crew

Pronunciation: /kɹuː/

The English word “crew” has 20 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. Any company of people; an assemblage; a throng.
  2. 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.
  3. A group of people working together on a task.
  4. The group of workers on a dramatic production who are not part of the cast.
  5. A close group of friends.
  6. A set of individuals lumped together by the speaker.
  7. A group of Rovers.
  8. A hip-hop or b-boying group.
  9. A rowing team manning a single shell.
  10. A member of the crew of a vessel or plant.
  11. A worker on a dramatic production who is not part of the cast.
  12. A member of a ship's company who is not an officer.
  13. The sport of competitive rowing.
  14. A pen for livestock such as chickens or pigs
  15. The Manx shearwater.

verb

  1. To be a member of a vessel's crew.
  2. To be a member of a work or production crew.
  3. To supply workers or sailors for a crew.
  4. To do the proper work of a sailor.
  5. To take on, recruit (new) crew.

Etymology

From Middle English crue, from Old French creue (“an increase, recruit, military reinforcement”), the feminine past participle of creistre (“grow”), from Latin crescere (“to arise, grow”).

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