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crew

  • noun
  • kroo͞

A group of people together

Other meanings

  1. 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.

  2. A group of people working together on a task.

Synonyms

  • work party

Related words

  • aircrew
  • crewable
  • crewdate
  • crewneck
  • crewperson
  • crewwoman
  • cybercrew
  • groundcrew
  • handcrew
  • multicrew
  • recrew
  • roadcrew

Example sentences

  • “The space station crew dealt with an unexpected emergency.”

    Tatoeba · Igider · CC0

Word history

From Latin "cresco".

Where this comes from

This definition is adapted from “crew” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.