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      crew
      noun
      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.
      A group of people working together on a task.
      A group of people together
      (informal, often derogatory) A close group of friends.
      (often derogatory) A set of individuals lumped together by the speaker.
      A person in a crew
      (plural: crew) A member of the crew of a vessel or plant.
      (nautical, plural: crew) A member of a ship's company who is not an officer.
      (art) The group of workers on a dramatic production who are not part of the cast.
      (art, plural: crew) A worker on a dramatic production who is not part of the cast.
      (rowing) A rowing team manning a single shell.
      (sports, rowing, US, uncountable) The sport of competitive rowing.
      (scouting) A group of Rovers.
      (slang, hip-hop) A hip-hop or b-boying group.
      A townland in County Antrim, Northern Ireland.
      A townland in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland.
      A habitational surname from Welsh.
      A male given name transferred from the surname.
      (US politics) Acronym of Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington.
      (library science) Acronym of continuous review, evaluation, and weeding.
      (British, dialectal chiefly Scotland, Northern England, East Midlands) A pen for livestock such as chickens or pigs
      (dialectal, dated) The Manx shearwater.
      (obsolete) Any company of people; an assemblage; a throng.
      verb
      (transitive and intransitive) To be a member of a vessel's crew
      To be a member of a work or production crew
      To supply workers or sailors for a crew
      (nautical) To do the proper work of a sailor
      (nautical) To take on, recruit (new) crew
      Roots
      crescerecrew- · Latin · to grow, increase, augmentation of forces
      Synonyms for crew
      aircrewngangnaircrewmannteamnsquadnfleetnpersonnelncrowdnbunchnpossenstaffnplatoonn
      Words related to crew
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