Crew

/kɹuː/ · noun

Meaning

A group of people together.

Definitions by Sense

1. A group of people together
2. A person in a crew
3. (sports, rowing, US, uncountable) The sport of competitive rowing.
4. (transitive and intransitive) To be a member of a vessel's crew.
5. (transitive) To be a member of a work or production crew.
6. (transitive) To supply workers or sailors for a crew.
7. (nautical) To do the proper work of a sailor.
8. (nautical) To take on, recruit (new) crew.

Example Sentences

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.

Two Andover classmates, Al Wilson and Al Lindley, both went out for crew in our freshman year at Yale.

We crewed together on a fishing boat last year.

The ship was crewed by fifty sailors.

On 3 Feb 1982 at Podmoscovnoe in the USSR, a Mil Mi-26 heavy-lift helicopter (NATO code-name "Halo"), crewed by G.V. Alfeurov and L.A. Indeyev (co-pilot), lifted a total mass of 6,560 ft.

The film was crewed and directed by students.

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.

Steele crewed the boat with men from his own regiment and volunteers from John Wood's detachment.

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Word Forms

• crews
• crewing
• crewed

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