transcription, транскрипция: [ kru: ]
( crews, crewing, crewed)
Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English.
1.
The crew of a ship, an aircraft, or a spacecraft is the people who work on and operate it.
The mission for the crew of the space shuttle Endeavour is essentially over...
The surviving crew members were ferried ashore.
N-COUNT-COLL
2.
A crew is a group of people with special technical skills who work together on a task or project.
...a two-man film crew making a documentary...
N-COUNT : usu with supp
3.
If you crew a boat, you work on it as part of the crew.
She was already a keen and experienced sailor, having crewed in both Merlin and Grayling...
There were to be five teams of three crewing the boat.
...a fully crewed yacht.
VERB : V , V n , V-ed
4.
You can use crew to refer to a group of people you disapprove of. ( INFORMAL )
This crew of killers and life-wreckers are headed by the mad but cunning Nino Brown.
= bunch, gang
N-SING-COLL : oft N of n [ disapproval ]