definition of the word crew

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enPR: kroo͞, IPA: /kɹuː/, SAMPA: /krU:/

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Rhymes: -uː
Homophones: Crewe, cru

from Middle English, from Old French creue (“‘an increase, recruit, military reinforcement’”), from feminine plural of creistre (“‘grow’”), from Latin cresco (“‘to arise, grow’”)

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Singular
crew

Plural
crews

crew (plural crews)

A group of people manning and operating a large facility or piece of equipment such as a factory, ship, boat or airplane

If you need help, please contact a member of the crew.

The crews of the two ships got into a fight.
(plural: crew) A member of the crew of a vessel or plant

One crew died in the accident.
(nautical, plural:crew) A member of a ship's company who is not an officer

The officers and crew assembled on the deck.

There are quarters for three officers and five crew.
(art) The group of workers on a dramatic production who are not part of the cast

There are a lot of carpenters in the crew!

The crews for different movies would all come down to the bar at night.
(art, plural: crew) A worker on a dramatic production who is not part of the cast

There were three actors and six crew on the set.
A group of people working together on a task

The crews competed to cut the most timber.
(informal, often derogatory) A close group of friends

I'd look out for that whole crew down at Jack's.
(often derogatory) A set of individuals lumped together by the speaker
- 1950, Bernard Nicholas Schilling, Conservative England and the Case Against Voltaire^[1], page 266:
  
  Malignant principles bear fruit in kind and the Revolution did no more than practice what men had been taught by the abandoned crew of philosophers.
(slang, hip-hop) A hip-hop group
- 2003, Jennifer Guglielmo & Salvatore Salerno, Are Italians White?^[2], ISBN 0415934508, page 150:
  
  We decided we needed another rapper in the crew and spent months looking.
(sports) The sport of competitive rowing
- 1989, Benjamin Spock & Mary Morgan, Spock on Spock^[3], ISBN 0394578139, page 71:
  
  Two Andover classmates, Al Wilson and Al Lindley, both went out for crew in our freshman year at Yale.
(rowing) A rowing team manning a single shell
- 1888, W.B. Woodgate, Boating^[4], page 71:
  
  If a crew feather much under water, it is a good plan to seat them in a row on a bench, and give each man a stick to handle as an oar.

(group manning a vessel): ship's company, all hands
(member of a crew): crewer, member; nautical only: sailor, seaman
(non-officer ship worker): seaman
(non-cast dramatic personnel): staff
(group engaged in a task): team, gang
(social group): clique, gang, pack, crowd, bunch, lot (UK); posse
(group lumped together): crowd, flock, lot
(hip-hop group): posse, band, group

Crew of a spaceship

Crew of a rowing shell

Crew working on a race car

A hip-hop crew

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