crew

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Albert goes in, I follow Albert, the crew is around.

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  1. noun A group of people working together; a gang: a crew of stagehands.
  2. noun A group of people gathered together temporarily; a crowd.
  3. noun All personnel operating or serving aboard a ship.

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  • The work must have been excellently paid for by the Germans, for the crew were assuredly in the secret, and ready even to fight, and they surely had to be paid for their risks Then it was a very important catch that the 'blimp' ran us into One of the best in a six-month," replied Captain Allaire. —  Dave Darrin After The Mine Layers
  • The Half Moon now entered the beautiful Highlands, and her crew were the first white men to see this enchanting spot. —  Discoverers and Explorers
  • If we could have foreseen such an event, we might have tried the range of our after pivot gun with very good effect upon the blockader following in our wake; but although our crew was at quarters, and we were prepared to fight our way to sea, we wished to avoid an encounter by which nothing was to be gained; our chief object being to injure the enemy's commerce. —  The Narrative of a Blockade-Runner
  • They obeyed promptly Mr Samuel the clerk and several more of the crew were then ordered into the boat. —  The Lonely Island The Refuge of the Mutineers
  • This man assisted also at the purchase-tackles for raising the stones; and one of the ablest and most active of the crew was appointed to hold on the end of the fall-tackle, which often required all his strength and his utmost agility in letting go, for the purpose of lowering the stone at the instant the word "lower" was given. —  The Lighthouse
 

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crow ·  pilot ·  personnel ·  squadron ·  technician ·  commander ·  crewman ·  troop ·  sailor ·  aircraft ·  team ·  worker

Used in the same contextWord Family

crew:   crow ·  crows ·  crowed ·  crowing
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  1. Middle English creue, military reinforcement, from Old French, increase, from feminine past participle of creistre, to grow, from Latin crēscere; see ker-2 in Indo-European roots.

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  1. Formerly also crue; from late Middle English crewe, a clipped form of *acrewe, accrewe, later accrue, an accession, a company: see accrue, n.
 

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