Definition of crew
- chiefly British past tense of crow
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Definition of crew
1
archaic
: a band or force of armed men
2 a
: a group of people associated together in a common activity or by common traits or interests
b
: gang 1a
3 a
: a company of people working on one job or under one foreman or operating a machine
b
: the whole company belonging to a ship sometimes including the officers and master;
also
: one who assists the skipper of a sailboat
c
: the persons who have duties on an aircraft in flight
d
: the rowers and coxswain of a racing shell;
also
: rowing
Examples of crew in a Sentence
a skilled member of a ship's crew
the flight's passengers and crew
the ship's captain and crew
A construction crew will begin work on the house next week.
Recent Examples of crew from the Web
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Equipment and crews are late in moving off the tracks after doing overnight repair work, the transit agency said.
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Further into the future — a MiamiCentral spokeswoman couldn't say when — crews will build a sky bridge directly into the Miami-Dade Government Center Metrorail and Metromover stations.
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On its Facebook page, the Aurora Fire Department said that construction crews working on the Water Street Mall hit a 1-inch service gas line.
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During the work, crews will grease the counterweight cables and the bridge will be open for extended amounts of time.
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Search crews loaded their cars with shovels and headed to a spot at the far end of a swampy field surrounded by trees.
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There was a general sense of unease on set because the cast and crew didn’t know how to behave around him.
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Sonya Aronowitz, executive producer at Juniper, quite amazingly created this theater, this production, out of nothing, finding a building in Spring Garden, finding the play, assembling cast and crew.
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Created in partnership with the Women in Film organization, each features an all female cast and crew.
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Definition of crew
: to act as a member of a crew
: to serve as a crew member on (a ship, an aircraft, etc.)
Examples of crew in a Sentence
She spent a couple of years crewing on a British ship.
The ship was crewed by 12 men.
Recent Examples of crew from the Web
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That is the current schedule for the first crewed launch of the Space Launch System, which would fly around the moon but not land.
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Members are needed in performing, crewing and in creating props, scenery and costumes.
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The station was visited by an uncrewed Shenzhou spacecraft, which docked with Tiangong-1 in November 2011, and then two crewed missions in June 2012 and June 2013.
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Swigert, it should be noted, was only added to the mission’s crew 48 hours before liftoff after crew member Ken Mattingly (who was exposed to German measles) was scrubbed from the mission.
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That’s exactly the case with Ultimate Direction’s new North Roll ($80), a gear organizer created with Jenny Jurek, who crewed her husband, Scott, to a speed record on the Appalachian Trail in 2015.
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Members are needed in performing, crewing and in creating props, scenery and costumes.
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The first crewed flight of the Dragon could take place by year-end, but SpaceX has far greater ambitions here as well.
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That’s because none of the world’s fleet of almost 500 tankers meets the requirements of the 1920 Jones Act, which mandates that vessels moving between U.S. ports be built and registered in the country, and crewed by Americans. 6.
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First Known Use of crew
1935
CREW Defined for English Language Learners
Definition of crew for English Language Learners
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: the group of people who operate a ship, airplane, or train
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: the people who work on a ship except the officers and captain
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: a group of people who do a specified kind of work together
crew
Definition of crew for English Language Learners
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: to work as a member of a crew that operates a ship or airplane
CREW Defined for Kids
noun
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ˈkrü
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Definition of crew for Students
1
: the group of people who operate a ship, train, or airplane
2
: a group of people working together
- the news crew
3
: a gathering of people
- Mom feeds a large crew on holidays.
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