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\ ˈkrü 
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\Definition of crew
(Entry 1 of 3)
chiefly British past tense of crow
crew
noun\ ˈkrü \
\Definition of crew (Entry 2 of 3)
1 archaic : a band or force of armed men
2a : a group of people associated together in a common activity or by common traits or interests
b : gang sense 1a
3a : 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
crew
verbcrewed; crewing; crews
Definition of crew (Entry 3 of 3)
: to act as a member of a crew
: to serve as a crew member on (a ship, an aircraft, etc.)
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Other Words from crew
Noun
crewless \ ˈkrü-ləs \ adjective
\ adjective
Examples of crew in a Sentence
Noun
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. Verb
She spent a couple of years crewing on a British ship.
The ship was crewed by 12 men.
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Recent Examples on the Web: Noun In 1898, the US battleship Maine mysteriously blew up in Havana Harbor, killing more than 260 crew members and bringing the United States closer to war with Spain.
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BostonGlobe.com, "This day in history," 15 Feb. 2020 Lane closures are a necessary part of providing a safe working environment for crews in the area.
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oregonlive, "Portland metro Thursday traffic: Fog, slick spots, for morning commute," 13 Feb. 2020 Police found a Spectrum cable crew in another resident’s driveway.
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Thomas Jewell, cleveland, "Four companies called off after house fire call turns out to be open burn: Moreland Hills Police Blotter," 7 Feb. 2020 The Kentucky Department of Transportation said road crews in Jefferson County will start clearing the roadways around 1 a.m. Friday.
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Billy Kobin, The Courier-Journal, "With snow possibly on the way, will JCPS cancel school Friday?," 6 Feb. 2020 The returning firefighters — 18 men and two women — worked on different crews in Australia.
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Washington Post, "California firefighters return from battling Australia fires," 5 Feb. 2020 The company has crews in shale basins across the United States and Canada.
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Sergio Chapa, Houston Chronicle, "BJ Services develops natural gas-fired turbine for frac crews," 4 Feb. 2020 In 2009, the Kremlin approved the development of a replacement to its Soyuz spacecraft, which was supposed to make its first test flight in 2015 and fly with a crew in 2018—but neither milestone came anywhere close to implementation.
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Anatoly Zak, Popular Mechanics, "Everything You Need To Know About Russia’s (Possibly Fictional) Super Heavy Rocket," 3 Feb. 2020 The chief executive of Thai Airways International PCL held a press conference on Wednesday to address a video that showed cleaning crew in hazmat suits spraying down the inside of an aircraft.
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Kim Mackrael, WSJ, "Airlines Brace for Coronavirus to Cut Into Revenue," 29 Jan. 2020 Recent Examples on the Web: Verb The federal government brought in 36 naval warships crewed by 11,000 men to police the high seas.
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Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, "18 Things You Probably Don't Know About Prohibition," 17 Jan. 2020 The victory gave Bill Belichick’s crew their 11th straight AFC East crown and a hold on the No.
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BostonGlobe.com, "Patriots deny Bills, capture 11th straight AFC East title - The Boston Globe," 22 Dec. 2019 Even so, soft landings south of Chang’e-4 hadn’t been attempted before Chandrayaan-2, crewed or uncrewed—and as recent missions underscore, a lot can go wrong on the way to the surface.
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Michael Greshko, National Geographic, "India’s first lunar lander falls silent just before touchdown," 6 Sep. 2019 These include flying scientific and technical experiments to the lunar surface to lay the groundwork for an eventual crewed mission.
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Alexandra Witze, Scientific American, "Can NASA Really Return People to the Moon by 2024?," 9 July 2019 The previous record was set by former station commander Peggy Whitson, who crewed the ISS in 2016-17.
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Theresa Machemer, Smithsonian Magazine, "Astronaut Christina Koch Breaks Record for Longest Spaceflight by a Woman," 28 Dec. 2019 Our SunSail lead boat was crewed by three 20-something Britons who organized cocktail get-togethers and trivia contests in the evenings: the wiry Captain Dom, buff first mate Will and a gregarious hostess named Charlie.
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Washington Post, "In the Greek islands, a ‘slow travel’ sailing odyssey to the far Ionians," 29 Nov. 2019 But the neighborhood changed, and in 1964 the members put the clubhouse on a barge, crewed up a tugboat and floated the club to China Basin.
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Carl Nolte, SFChronicle.com, "A speck of old San Francisco desperately hangs on in the shadow of Chase Center," 9 Nov. 2019 But since March, when Vice President Mike Pence threw down a marker to achieve another crewed lunar landing by 2024, the work began ramping up fast.
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Time, "NASA Is Working With Private Companies to Go Back to the Moon. That's Riskier Than it Seems," 31 July 2019
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crew
nounEnglish Language Learners Definition of crew
(Entry 1 of 2)
: the group of people who operate a ship, airplane, or train
: the people who work on a ship except the officers and captain
: a group of people who do a specified kind of work together
crew
verbEnglish Language Learners Definition of crew (Entry 2 of 2)
: to work as a member of a crew that operates a ship or airplane
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crew
noun\ ˈkrü \
\Kids Definition of crew
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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