crew
/kɹu/ noun B2- A group of people (often staff) manning and operating a large facility or piece of equipment such as a factory, ship, boat, airplane, or spacecraft. · If you need help, please contact a member of the crew.
- A group of people working together on a task. · The crews competed to cut the most timber.
- The group of workers on a dramatic production who are not part of the cast. · There are a lot of carpenters in the crew!· The crews for different movies would all come down to the bar at night.
- A close group of friends. · I’d look out for that whole crew down at Jack’s.
- A set of individuals lumped together by the speaker.
- A group of Rovers.
- A hip-hop or b-boying group.
- A rowing team manning a single shell.
Plural crews
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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The master of La Jeune Amélie, who was very desirous of retaining amongst his crew a man of Edmond’s value, had offered to advance him funds out of his future profits, which Edmond had accepted.
La Jeune Amélie had a very active crew, very obedient to their captain, who lost as little time as possible.
“No, sir, he died of brain-fever in dreadful agony.” Then turning to the crew, he said, “Bear a hand there, to take in sail!”
All hands obeyed, and at once the eight or ten seamen who composed the crew, sprang to their respective stations at the spanker brails and outhaul, topsail sheets and halyards, the jib downhaul, and the topsail clewlines and buntlines.
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