crew

Meaning

Verb

1. (intransitive, transitive) 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

Noun

1. (obsolete) A group of people together
2. A group of people together
3. A group of people together
4. A group of people together
5. (derogatory, informal, often) A group of people together
6. (derogatory, often) A group of people together
7. A group of people together
8. (slang) A group of people together
9. A group of people together
10. (plural) A person in a crew
11. (plural) A person in a crew
12. (plural) A person in a crew
13. (US, uncountable) The sport of competitive rowing.

Noun

A pen for livestock such as chickens or pigs

Noun

The Manx shearwater.

crow

• Noun
• Adj
• Verb

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Synonyms

team

gang

group

staff

company

set

band

squad

party

🥳

detachment

crowd

personnel

work party

bunch

collection

association

troop

cluster

assembly

pack

sailor

platoon

crewman

meeting

mob

oarsman

paddler

partisans

passenger

police department

polis

proletariat

riff-raff

ring

💍

rower

sculling

seaman

ship

🚢

shipman

side

squadron

tarpaulin

union

venture

anulus

ship’s company

bunch gang

community

men

police

👮

Translations

Mannschaft

équipage

equipaggio

tripulación

équipe

tripulação

squadra

bemanning

equipo

Besatzung

ploeg

Crew

equipe

πλήρωμα

Pronounced as (IPA)

/kɹuː/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: crue

In summary

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”).

Sentences

The major was killed and his crew badly wounded .

However , these designs were tall , open-topped stopgap designs with no protection for the crew .