crew

1 the men who man a ship or aircraft

2 an organized group of workmen [syn: gang, work party]

3 an informal body of friends; "he still hangs out with the same crowd" [syn: crowd, gang, bunch]

4 the team of men manning a racing shell v : serve as a crew member on

English

Pronunciation

• kroo͞, /kruː/, /krU:/

• Rhymes: -uː

Homophones

• Crewe

Noun

1. A group of people operating a means of transport.
2. A group of people working on something.
3. The non-actor members of a theatrical stage-production.

   There must be a hundred carpenters and painters in the crew!

4. A member of a crew.

   Ten crew died when the submarine sank.

Synonyms

• team

Related terms

• crew cut
• crew mate
• skeleton crew

Translations

• Chinese: 机务人员
• Czech: posádka
• Dutch: bemanning , ploeg , team
• Finnish: miehistö (1), ryhmä (2)
• French: équipage
• Galician: equipaxe, equipo, grupo
• German: Mannschaft (1,2)
• Hebrew: צוות (tzevet)
• Indonesian: awak
• Interlingua: equipage, equipa, gruppo
• Italian: ciurma (of a ship) , equipaggio
• Japanese: クルー (kurū)
• Norwegian: mannskap
• Portuguese: tripulação
• Serbian: posada
• Slovene: posadka, ekipa
• Spanish: tripulación, equipaje, equipo, grupo
• Swedish: besättning
• Volapük: skip (crew on a ship), yunanef (group of people)

Verb

1. To participate in a ship's crew.

crew (simple past of to crow)

1. In the context of "British English}}

A crew comprises a body or a class of people who work at a common activity, generally in a structured or hierarchical organization. The word has particular nautical resonances: the tasks involved in operating a ship, particularly a sailing ship, providing numerous specialities within a ship's crew, often organised with a chain of command. Traditional nautical usage strongly distinguishes officers from crew, though the two groups combined form the ship's company. Members of a crew are often referred to by the title "Crew member".

"Crew" is also used colloquially to refer to a small, tight-knit group of friends or associates engaged in criminal activity. Also used in reference to the traditional "unit" of criminals under the supervision of a caporegime in the American Mafia. However, the term is not specific to (Mafia-affiliated) organized crime.

In hip-hop

In hip-hop terminology, crew means a team or group; for example, a breakdance crew, rap crew, or graffiti crew. They have to be able to work together as a team for their dances.

See also

• For a specific sporting usage, see Rowing (sport).
• For filmmaking usage, see Film crew.
• For live music usage, see Road crew.
• For stagecraft usage, see Stage crew.
• For the comic strip, see Motley's Crew.

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