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Crew

[kroo]

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noun

a group of persons involved in a particular kind of work or working together: the crew of a train; a wrecking crew.

Nautical.

the people who sail or operate a ship or boat.

the common sailors of a ship's company.

a particular gang of a ship's company.

the people who fly or operate an aircraft or spacecraft.

the team that rows a racing shell: varsity crew.

the sport of racing with racing shells: He went out for crew in his freshman year.

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a company; crowd: He and his crew of friends filled the room.

any force or band of armed men.

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verb (used with object)

to serve as a member of a crew on (a ship, aircraft, etc.).

to obtain or employ a crew for (a ship, aircraft, etc.).

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verb (used without object)

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to serve as a member of a crew.

Origin:
1425–75; late Middle English crewe augmentation, hence reinforcements, body of soldiers < Middle French creue, literally, increase, noun use of feminine of Old French creu, past participle of creistre to grow < Latin crēscere; see crescent

Related forms

crew·less, adjective

Usage note
See collective noun.

Example Sentences

For the next two weeks, the crew and the science team worked around the clock, collecting hundreds of samples.

BA's cabin crew need to wake-up and realise how well paid they are vis-a-vias other cabin crew and how replaceable they are.

One of the more special moments in the marathon of launch events is crew walkout.

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For the next two weeks, the crew and the science team worked around the clock, collecting hundreds of samples.

BA's cabin crew need to wake-up and realise how well paid they are vis-a-vias other cabin crew and how replaceable they are.

One of the more special moments in the marathon of launch events is crew walkout.

The crew wrapped the set and prepared for the rest of their shoots for the.

Hudson and several scurvy-sick crew members were set adrift in a shallop and never seen again.

Jesse and her crew added a coat of white, cut away one side, and inserted a.

Your job is to guide your pirate crew through raids in and around the.

Wagoner says were useful both in production and as a tool for recruiting cast and crew members.

The carrier's cabin crew have been given compulsory.

Despite the accident, the space station crew has ways home and could live for up to a year with no deliveries, officials say.

The seven-man crew escaped in a lifeboat and spent a week at sea before they drifted ashore.

The water garden took our five-person crew eight hours to install.

And while the ship did not encounter any pirates, the crew piloting the vessel was not taking any chances.

And then a friend of mine who worked on an ambulance crew once picked up a young woman who gave birth in the ambulance.

Perhaps it's the casual chumminess of the cabin crew.

Very few shuttle events can beat the emotion of launch, but the one that comes close is crew walkout.

But this week a ship's crew foiled a hijacking with help from a decidedly older technology: a message in a bottle.

Twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, a rotating crew of activists called the store to complain about the policy.

Hijacks often end with sackloads of cash being exchanged for the captured vessel and crew.

Just prior to the ship sinking, the crew added more fuel to the fire in a desperate attempt to steam to safety.

Even without a mercenary crew on hand, though, officials from.

So our motley crew thought, what the hell, let's tell the world about our little gang.

But such ships would cost even more, as they require a steam catapult, arrester wires and a bigger crew.

As the crew struggles to cool the reactor, deadly radiation is spreading through the sub.

So the crew conserved water by drinking little and eating only wet foods.

Father found her unconscious in the bathroom, emergency crew got her heart started again.

The price they and the crew pay when they are caught is significant.

Gerry and the crew take a break on their way up the mountain.

Boston's cabbies are a crabby crew even on the best of days, but they're especially ticked off lately.

The skeletons of her eight-man crew were still on board.

Many of the crew had been arrested while protesting in support of their beliefs.

He led every crew excursion to new planets and took an active role in all interactions with new civilizations.

They say they fired warning shots over the heads of the crew.

When a giant snow storm blows through the demolition site, the wrecking crew has its work cut out for them.

Earnhardt's crew hoped to make repairs in the garage, but the damage was terminal.

Some are local production crew and others are local construction personnel.

Experts believe that the nine crew members and their possessions may still remain inside the vessel in a semi-preserved state.

The crew provide their own food and ice for the hold and split the rest.

For a determined crew on a tiny ship at the bottom of the world, the answer is easy.

The additional crew member who will staff the open deck might prove an expensive luxury in austere times.

Dixon, that gave a face to the crew of the submarine on that fateful day:.

When construction is finished, six crew members will be able to live and work in a space larger than a typical five-bedroom house.

Indeed, the vessel itself weighs little more than the two people who crew it.

For some, a hungry clean-up crew is the best partner a fish can have.

There is a joke in the airline industry that the future crew of an airliner will consist of a pilot and a dog.

During a nighttime tiger search, the crew finds a palm civet munching on some fruit.

There is also new money to encourage commercial crew and cargo services to the space station.

On some ships you can sign on as a trainee crew member.

But it may end up becalmed-and lose some crew to boot.

Kept in the dark about their husbands' fate by their government, none of the eight widows of the crew remarried.

It didn't take long for the film crew to find three separate cases, she said.

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Dictionary.com Unabridged

verb

a simple past tense of crow².

verb (used without object)

to utter the characteristic cry of a rooster.

to gloat, boast, or exult (often followed by over).

to utter an inarticulate cry of pleasure, as an infant does.

noun

the characteristic cry of a rooster.

an inarticulate cry of pleasure.

Origin:
before 1000; Middle English crowen, Old English crāwan; cognate with Dutch kraaien, German krähen; see crow¹

Related forms

crow·er, noun

crow·ing·ly, adverb

Synonyms
2. vaunt, brag.

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World English Dictionary

crew¹ (kruː)

—n
1.	the men who man a ship, boat, aircraft, etc
2.	nautical a group of people assigned to a particular job or type of work
3.	informal a gang, company, or crowd

—vb
4.	to serve on (a ship) as a member of the crew

[C15 crue (military) reinforcement, from Old French creue augmentation, from Old French creistre to increase, from Latin crescere]

crew² (kruː)

—vb
	a past tense of crow

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Word Origin & History

crew

c.1437, from O.Fr. creue "an increase, recruit, military reinforcement," from fem. pp. of creistre "grow," from L. crescare "arise, grow." Meaning "people acting or working together" is first attested 1570. "Gang of men on a warship" is from 1692. Crew-cut first attested 1938, so called because the style

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was originally adopted by boat crews at Harvard and Yale.

crow

O.E. crawian "make a loud noise like a crow;" sense of "exult in triumph" is 1522, perhaps in part because the English crow is a carrion-eater.

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