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crew

1

[ kroo ]

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.
    1. the people who sail or operate a ship or boat.
    2. the common sailors of a ship's company.
    3. 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)

  1. to serve as a member of a crew on (a ship, aircraft, etc.).
  2. to obtain or employ a crew for (a ship, aircraft, etc.).

verb (used without object)

  1. to serve as a member of a crew.

crew

2

[ kroo ]

verb

  1. a simple past tense of crow 2.

crew

1

/ kruː /

verb

  1. a past tense of crow 2


crew

2

/ kruː /

noun

  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

verb

  1. to serve on (a ship) as a member of the crew

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Other Words From

  • crewless adjective

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Word History and Origins

Origin of crew1

First recorded in 1425–75; late Middle English crewe “augmentation,” hence “reinforcements, body of soldiers,” from Middle French creue, literally, “an increase,” noun use of feminine of Old French creu “grown, increased,” past participle of creistre “to grow,” from Latin crēscere; crescent

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Word History and Origins

Origin of crew1

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

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Example Sentences

The brokers then scout out potential “crew members” who can earn substantial discounts for working the journey.

Specifically, what briefing did the flight crew receive before they went to the airplane?

Carlisle writes that the Air Force would want a crew ratio of 10 to one for each drone orbit during normal everyday operations.

J Crew did not give back the money it incidentally made off of Mrs. Obama.

Crew members had to cut through the ice on the streets to get shots.

I asked whether he or the crew had seen any prodigious birds in the air about the time he first discovered me?

It was well that Monsieur de Biancourt was wiser than many of his crew, whose sole cry was to kill them all.

Three days after we left the port, a discovery was made of another addition to the number of the crew.

On the following day they were again seen, and fired upon by the boat's crew of the Dick.

Peroo, well known to the crew, had possessed himself of the wheel, and was taking the launch craftily up-stream.

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