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crew

1  [kroo]
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–noun
1. a group of persons involved in a particular kind of work or working together: the crew of a train; a wrecking crew.
2. Nautical.
a. the people who sail or operate a ship or boat.
b. the common sailors of a ship's company.
c. a particular gang of a ship's company.
3. the people who fly or operate an aircraft or spacecraft.
4. the team that rows a racing shell: varsity crew.
5. the sport of racing with racing shells: He went out for crew in his freshman year.
6. a company; crowd: He and his crew of friends filled the room.
7. any force or band of armed men.
–verb (used with object)
8. to serve as a member of a crew on (a ship, aircraft, etc.).
9. to obtain or employ a crew for (a ship, aircraft, etc.).
–verb (used without object)
10. to serve as a member of a crew.
Origin:
1425–75; late ME crewe augmentation, hence reinforcements, body of soldiers < MF creue, lit., increase, n. use of fem. of OF creu, ptp. of creistre to grow < L crēscere; see crescent

Related forms:
crewless, adjective

Usage note:
See collective noun.
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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 was originally adopted by boat crews at Harvard and Yale.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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