crew

noun crews

1. obsolete Any company of people; an assemblage; a throng. There a noble crew / Of Lordes and Ladies stood on every side.
2. 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. If you need help, please contact a member of the crew.
3. A group of people working together on a task. The crews competed to cut the most timber.

   Similar: team, gang

4. The group of workers on a dramatic production who are not part of the cast. There are a lot of carpenters in the crew!
5. derogatory, informal, often A close group of friends. I’d look out for that whole crew down at Jack’s.
6. derogatory, often A set of individuals lumped together by the speaker. 1861 William Weston Patton, (version of) John Brown's Body He captured Harper’s Ferry, with his nineteen men so few, And frightened "Old Virginny" till she trembled thru and thru; They hung him for a traitor, they themselves the traitor crew, But his soul is marching on.

   Similar: crowd, flock, lot, gang

7. A group of Rovers.
8. 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

   Similar: posse, band, group

9. 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.
10. plural A member of the crew of a vessel or plant. One crew died in the accident.
11. plural A worker on a dramatic production who is not part of the cast. There were three actors and six crew on the set.
12. plural A member of a ship's company who is not an officer. The officers and crew assembled on the deck.

    Similar: crewer

13. US, uncountable The sport of competitive rowing. The University of Virginia belongs to the Atlantic Coast Conference and competes interscholastically in basketball, baseball, crew, cross country, fencing, football, golf, indoor track, lacrosse, polo, soccer, swimming, tennis, track, and wrestling.

Similar: ship's company, all hands, complement, staff, stagehands, clique, gang, pack, crowd, bunch, lot, posse, member, crewmember, nautical only: sailor, seaman

verb crews · crewing · crewed

1. intransitive, transitive To be a member of a vessel's crew. We crewed together on a fishing boat last year.
2. transitive To be a member of a work or production crew. The film was crewed and directed by students.
3. transitive 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.
4. To do the proper work of a sailor. The crewing of the vessel before the crash was deficient.
5. To take on, recruit (new) crew. The two ships will be crewing in the latter half of September.

verb

1. UK, archaic, past simple past of crow (“make the characteristic sound of a rooster”). It was still dark when the cock crew.

noun crews

1. East Midlands, Northern England, Scotland, UK, dialectal 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.

noun crews

1. dated, dialectal The Manx shearwater.

verb

1. Internet, humorous, nonstandard, participle, past simple past and past participle of cry the cry I crew

proper noun

1. A habitational surname from Welsh.
2. A male given name transferred from the surname.
3. A townland in County Antrim, Northern Ireland.
4. A townland in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland.

noun

1. abbreviation, acronym, uncountable Acronym of continuous review, evaluation, and weeding.

proper noun

1. US, abbreviation, acronym Acronym of Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington “Defendants’ representations to this Court that Mr. Musk is not running DOGE are tantamount to legal gaslighting,” CREW said.