Crew | Mean of crew in English Dictionary

/ˈkruː/

• Noun
• the group of people who operate a ship, airplane, or train
1. a skilled member of a ship's crew
2. flight crews
3. the flight's passengers and crew
4. crew members
• the people who work on a ship except the officers and captain
1. the ship's captain and crew
• a group of people who do a specified kind of work together
1. A construction crew will begin work on the house next week.
2. the restaurant's kitchen crew
3. television/news/film crews
4. the film's camera crew
5. We spoke with members of the show's original cast and crew. [=actors and other people who work to produce a show]
6. the driver's pit crew [=people who fix a race car during a race]
7. one of the factory's crew chiefs [=people in charge of a group of workers]

• a group of people who are friends or who are doing something together
1. He and his crew [=gang] used to hang out at the bowling alley.
2. We were a motley crew [=an unusual mixed group] of musicians and athletes.
• a team that rows a boat in a race against other boats
1. Crews from several colleges will be competing in today's race.
• the sport of racing in long, narrow boats that are moved by rowing with oars
1. In college, she participated in both crew and tennis.
• Verb
• to work as a member of a crew that operates a ship or airplane
1. She spent a couple of years crewing on a British ship.
2. The ship was crewed by 12 men.