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What does crew mean?

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Noun
  1. A group of people together
    1. (obsolete) Any company of people; an assemblage; a throng.
    2. 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.
    3. A group of people working together on a task.
    4. (art) The group of workers on a dramatic production who are not part of the cast.
    5. (derogatory) A close group of friends.
    6. (derogatory) A set of individuals lumped together by the speaker.
    7. (Scouting) A group of Rovers.
    8. (slang, hip-hop) A hip-hop group
    9. (rowing) A rowing team manning a single shell.
  2. A person in a crew
    1. (plural: crew) A member of the crew of a vessel or plant.
    2. (art, plural: crew) A worker on a dramatic production who is not part of the cast.
    3. (nautical, plural: crew) A member of a ship's company who is not an officer.
  3. (sports, rowing, US, uncountable) The sport of competitive rowing.
Verb
  1. (transitive and intransitive) To be a member of a vessel's crew
  2. To be a member of a work or production crew
  3. To supply workers or sailors for a crew
  4. (nautical) To do the proper work of a sailor
  5. (nautical) To take on, recruit (new) crew
Verb
  1. (Britain, archaic) simple past tense of crow To have made the characteristic sound of a rooster.
Noun
  1. (Britain, dialectal) A pen for livestock such as chickens or pigs
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