| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| PRONUNCIATION: |  kr |
| NOUN: | 1a. A group of people working together; a gang: a crew of stagehands. b. A group of people gathered together temporarily; a crowd. 2a. All personnel operating or serving aboard a ship. b. All of a ship's personnel except the officers. c. All personnel operating or serving aboard an aircraft in flight. 3a. Sports A team of rowers, as of a racing shell. b. The sport of rowing. | | VERB: | Inflected forms: crewed, crew·ing, crews
| | INTRANSITIVE VERB: | To serve as a member of a crew: crewed on a sloop. | | TRANSITIVE VERB: | To serve as a crew member on: The space station will be crewed by a team of eight people. | | ETYMOLOGY: | Middle English creue, military reinforcement, from Old French, increase, from feminine past participle of creistre, to grow, from Latin cr scere. See ker-2 in Appendix I. | | OTHER FORMS: | crew man —NOUN
crewper son —NOUN
crewwoman —NOUN
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