Crew People Kruː Working Men Plane Noun Members

• crew members
• all the men and women in the crew
• none of the passengers and crew were injured.
• the crew of the plane instructed everyone to remain seated.

crew

1. all the people working on a ship, plane, etc.
• SEE ALSO aircrew
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• crew members
• all the men and women in the crew
• None of the passengers and crew were injured.
• The crew of the plane instructed everyone to remain seated.
• a change of crew in Frankfurt
2. all the people working on a ship, plane etc. except the officers who are in charge
• the officers and crew
3. a group of people with special skills working together
• SEE ALSO ground crew
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/ground-crew
• a film/camera/TV crew
• a fire/an emergency/a rescue crew
• It took ambulance crews more than an hour to free them.
• Ten people answer to the crew chief.

Extra Examples

• Fire crews were called to the scene.
• The cast and crew of the movie are giving it their all.
• Fire crews were called to the house at around 5 o'clock.
• Maintenance crews have been working 18-hours shifts to repair the damage.
• The film crew and the actors had all left the studio by then.
• Our support crew followed behind in two Land Rovers.
• The house was soon besieged by TV crews and photographers.
• Two crews of six men carried out the work in shifts.
• We have camera crews from ABC, CBS and NBC coming.
• a maintenance/support crew
4. a group of people
• The people she invited were a pretty motley crew (= a strange mix of types of people).

Extra Examples

• Let's get a crew together and go to the pub.
• We found him in the canteen with a crew of assorted computer geeks.
5. a team of people who row boats in races
• a member of the Cambridge crew
6. the sport of rowing with other people in a boat
• I’m thinking of going out for crew this semester (= joining the rowing team).
7. a person or team of people who sail boats in races or for pleasure (usually not including the captain)

Word Origin

• late Middle English: from Old French creue ‘augmentation, increase’, feminine past participle of croistre ‘grow’, from Latin crescere. The original sense was ‘band of soldiers serving as reinforcements’; hence it came to denote any organized armed band or, generally, a company of people (late 16th cent.).