crew

noun

1. (obsolete)A group of people together

   “There a noble crew / Of Lordes and Ladies stood on every side.”

   “Faithful to whom? to thy rebellious crew?”

2. A group of people together

   “If you need help, please contact a member of the crew.”

   “He saw now clearly that the sole crew of the vessel was these two dead men, and though he could not see their faces, he saw by their outstretched hands, which were all of ragged flesh, that they had been subjected to some strange exceptional process of decay.”

   “There's a change of driver halfway at Crianlarich. Glasgow crews bring the 35-year-old Class 156 north, then wait to take over the next train back south. Crews from Mallaig, Oban and Fort William take their trains from the coast to Crianlarich and swap over. There's a tiny rest room on the platform, with a microwave and a sink, while they wait. Some drivers are signed all the way to the city. Most are not.”

3. A group of people together

   “The crews competed to cut the most timber.”

4. A group of people together

   “There are a lot of carpenters in the crew!”

   “The crews for different movies would all come down to the bar at night.”

5. (derogatory, informal, often)A group of people together

   “I’d look out for that whole crew down at Jack’s.”

6. (derogatory, often)A group of people together

   “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.”

   “Malignant principles bear fruit in kind and the Revolution did no more than practice what men had been taught by the abandoned crew of philosophers.”

7. A group of people together
8. (slang)A group of people together

   “And Jay cuts the records every day of the week / And we are the crew that can never be meek”

   “The most popular and critically acclaimed rap and deejay “crews”—Run-D.M.C., Whodini, L.L. Cool J, the Beastie Boys, the Fat Boys, Public Enemy, Full Force, Salt & Pepa, Afrika Bambaataa, Kurtis Blow, Mantronix, U.T.F.O., et al.—were spawned on that city's streets.”

   “We decided we needed another rapper in the crew and spent months looking.”

   “In b-boying culture, a group of b-boys or b-girls who dance and battle together are referred to as a crew.”

   “[…] mutating into all-star line-ups of emcees spitting hot bars over familiar beats, then to a single crew spitting bars over familiar beats, then eventually to a single crew (or artist) spitting bars over unfamiliar beats.”

9. A group of people together

   “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 person in a crew

    “One crew died in the accident.”

11. (plural)A person in a crew

    “There were three actors and six crew on the set.”

12. (plural)A person in a crew

    “The officers and crew assembled on the deck.”

    “There are quarters for three officers and five crew.”

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.”

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

14. (British, East-Midlands, Northern-England, Scotland, 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.”

15. (dated, dialectal)The Manx shearwater.
16. (abbreviation, acronym, alt-of, uncountable)Acronym of continuous review, evaluation, and weeding.

verb

1. (intransitive, transitive)To be a member of a vessel's crew.

   “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.”

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.”

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

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.”

6. (British, archaic, form-of, past)simple past of crow (“make the characteristic sound of a rooster”).

   “It was still dark when the cock crew.”

   “And, as the Cock crew, those who stood before The Tavern shouted — "Open then the Door! You know how little while we have to stay, And, once departed, may return no more."”

7. (Internet, form-of, humorous, nonstandard, participle, past)simple past and past participle of cry

name

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.
5. (US, abbreviation, acronym, alt-of)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.”