crew

noun17

1. •
   a team of workers who together run a ship, a plane or a large piece of equipment

   • If you need help, please contact a member of the crew.
2. •
   A group of people working together on a task.

   • The crews competed to cut the most timber.
3. •
   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.
4. •
   A rowing team manning a single shell.

   • 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. — 1888
5. •
   A group of people together
6. •
   Any company of people; an assemblage; a throng.

   • There a noble crew / Of Lordes and Ladies stood on every side. — 1590
7. •
   (disapproving) A set of individuals lumped together by the speaker.

   • 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. — 1950
8. •
   A person in a crew
9. •
   A member of the crew of a vessel or plant.

   • One crew died in the accident.
10. •
    A worker on a dramatic production who is not part of the cast.

    • There were three actors and six crew on the set.
11. •
    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.
12. •
    (informal) A close group of friends.

    • I’d look out for that whole crew down at Jack’s.
13. •
    (US) The sport of competitive rowing.

    • Two Andover classmates, Al Wilson and Al Lindley, both went out for crew in our freshman year at Yale. — 1989
14. •
    (slang) A hip-hop or b-boying group.

    • And Jay cuts the records every day of the week / And we are the crew that can never be meek — 1985
15. •
    A group of Rovers.
16. •
    (dialect, UK) A pen for livestock such as chickens or pigs

    • Between the shippon and the pig-crew, with the wind blowing over from the vegetable ground. — 2004
17. •
    (dialect, old-fashioned) The Manx shearwater.

verb5

1. •
   To be a member of a vessel's crew.

   • We crewed together on a fishing boat last year.
   • The ship was crewed by fifty sailors.
2. •
   To be a member of a work or production crew.

   • The film was crewed and directed by students.
3. •
   To do the proper work of a sailor.

   • The crewing of the vessel before the crash was deficient.
4. •
   To supply workers or sailors for a crew.

   • The seafood companies crewed huge trawlers with new fishermen, many of whom were fish-plant workers, since much of the work on board a modern trawler is fish processing. — 1997
5. •
   To take on, recruit (new) crew.

   • The two ships will be crewing in the latter half of September. — 1967

noun1

1. •
   Acronym of continuous review, evaluation, and weeding.