I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a camera crew (= the people who work the cameras that make a film or programme )
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We can provide a professional camera crew for any type of production.
a film crew/unit (= a group of people working together to make a film )
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The film crew are making a documentary about village life.
a television (film) crew
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A television crew were allowed to film the meeting.
ambulance staff/crew/worker
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The ambulance crew removed him from the wreckage.
cabin crew
crew cut
crew neck
flight crew
ground crew
lifeboat crew/station/service
maintenance crew/man/staff (= someone who looks after buildings and equipment for a school or company )
wrecking crew
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
motley
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A motley crew for the most part, with the reputation of being beer-swilling, womanising chauvinists.
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He got on stage at his party with a black Strat and a motley rock crew called Miss World.
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When he stalked out he left her with a motley crew mostly of accountants and lawyers.
■ NOUN
air
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We are still insisting that the attack on Baghdad was carried out to protect the lives of our air crew .
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If the Nations Air crew had been alerted, it might not have had to take evasive action.
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For this tour Sugar also carried two engine fitters and an airframe fitter, Cecil W Brownlee, as well as the air crew .
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It shows this air crew just as he baled out of the aircraft less his parachute harness which he had abandoned on landing.
ambulance
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But only two million out of the 20 million journeys which ambulance crews carry out each year are emergency calls.
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They also give advanced life-support training to ambulance crews .
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The action taken in London had an immediate affect elsewhere as ambulance crews began to protest at the Government's intervention.
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Parents who were very distressed. Ambulance crews were tending to the injured.
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An ambulance crew has confirmed that he would have died within seconds if the right action hadn't been taken.
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A pregnant woman had to be rescued from her car by ambulance crews on the A48 in Gloucestershire.
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Andrew Culf Three ambulance crews from Fulham dealt with emergencies yesterday after the 999 calls were put through to them.
cabin
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This goes on to the computer so that the cabin crew will know to reassure you and help you through the flight.
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The airline will run 13 former Dan Air short-haul routes from Gatwick, using 450 of its existing flight and cabin crew .
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One member of the cabin crew was killed.
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But after they take off a stewardess appears. Cabin crew , John reminds himself: stewardess is sexist.
camera
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Outside Number 10 itself there was a solitary television camera crew .
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The whir of the camera crews set off a media stampede.
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The camera crews rushed forward, desperate to catch this moment on film.
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The camera crews were desperate for a shot, and the reporters needed a quote.
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The horde of fans, press and camera crews , who assembled each morning and night at training, looked on quizzically.
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The way camera crews staked out the hospital, you would have thought that Jackson himself was giving birth.
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My only surprise is they weren't wearing full panstick make-up for the photographers and camera crews assembled outside.
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That is, until camera crews on the tarmac turned their lenses to them.
chief
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Because our Hueys had no guns except the machine guns the crew chief and gunner used, they were called slicks.
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In other words, they helped the crew chiefs where required, as well as one another.
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A boy called Red, the crew chief for this ship, helped me strap in on the right side.
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The crew chief showed them the damage under the engine cowling.
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Gary DeHart, two-time series champion Terry Labonte's crew chief , also was fined and placed on probation in Daytona.
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All three crew chiefs work for Hendrick Motorsports.
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The crew chief and gunner were also happy.
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One crew chief stayed, dead.
film
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But the illusion is soon shattered ... the moored sailing vessel alongside is heaving with 65 members of a film crew .
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A film crew had it narrowed down to Ahwatukee or a spot near the Phoenix Zoo.
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During 1992, more than 30 film crews have carried out features on the Group.
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After Major League Baseball agreed to cooperate, the Giants allowed film crews access to the stadium.
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The gunmen and the survivors who came here, the photographers and correspondents and film crews simply walked on to the theatrical stage.
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And did the film crew make a difference?
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As their cameras rolled, the film crew looked on anxiously while Crawford drove the Rolls up the ramp.
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The film crew had leased a large hangar at Ford Island and used it as their headquarters during the filming.
fire
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The car had to be righted before fire crews could attempt to cut the woman free.
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A fire crew arrived, took one look and summoned an ambulance.
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And fire crews were stoned in three separate incidents as they tried to deal with fires.
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Two fire crews from Bury attended the crash which happened in a torrential downpour.
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Arson fear: Fire crews tackled the second blaze in three days in an empty house in Trent Street, Middlesbrough yesterday.
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House arson: Fire crews spent more than two hours tackling a severe blaze in an empty Middlesbrough house yesterday.
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Seconds later the police, county ambulance and fire crews arrived and the process of transporting the passengers to the ambulances began.
flight
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The flight crew aborted the takeoff, however, could not stop the aircraft on the wet runway.
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In this case the members of the flight crew live in the bunker, alongside their missiles.
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As the party headed home the flight crew served cake and sang Happy Birthday.
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In the air, the all-male flight crew ruled.
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Pilots and other flight crew immediately come to mind; so too do maintenance engineers and air traffic controllers.
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The flight crew reported smoke in the cockpit and cabin before the tower lost contact.
ground
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The ground crew got Patterson out in a tearing rush.
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As he was saying that, I looked out the window and saw the ground crew taking the luggage off the plane.
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The ground crew can now work to refuel, clean the squashed bugs off the bubble and put the aircraft to bed.
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The ground crews within the Army Air Corps are generally the unsung heroes behind everything we do.
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Graf von Kageneck is helped into his parachute harness by his ground crew on a Sicilian airfield in May 1941.
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The following day, the ground crews arrived and received thirteen Spitfires with another ten on April 28.
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The personnel include air and ground crews , communications experts and air traffic controllers.
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Then they've got the ground crews with dozens of machine-guns and hundreds of damn rifles, all blazing away.
lifeboat
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It was only when I started to receive my magazine that I realised just how courageous the lifeboat crews are.
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The articles show the bravery, skill and commitment that is needed by each of the lifeboat crews .
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He has trained handicapped youngsters at sea and is a lifeboat crew member.
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The courage and endeavours of the volunteer lifeboat crews have fired the support of many generations.
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A LIFEBOAT crew has been honoured for a daring rescue on the Cleveland coast.
maintenance
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And travelling maintenance crews may not turn up from one year to the next because of the immense areas they have to cover.
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He saw the maintenance crew posed disconsolately on a hill.
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Then one day all of us on the maintenance crew were watching a blue movie.
member
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The crash killed the two crew members and three people on the ground.
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The buoy is somehow a fitting monument to the crew members who lost their lives here.
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I was a crew member of the Enola Gay, the B29 that dropped a bomb on Hiroshima.
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Her surviving crew members , rich with prize money, are unprepared, perhaps, for what lies ahead -- peace.
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The three crew members of Guiding Lights were then arrested and ordered to put into Plymouth.
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Six of the Challenger crew members are represented on the national Challenger Center board by their surviving spouses.
television
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The television crew did their stuff.
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Reporters and television crews dribbled in to Austin over the last few days, with 275 requesting press credentials.
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To my great surprise, the television crews gathered round in order to interview me about my project.
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Out of the corner of his eye he can see the television crews squirming around in the haze of light.
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Professional television crews , in fact, bring their own power generators with them to enable them to light large areas.
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Soviet television crews were taken to the site, telegenic Soviet doctors were produced to discuss the likely consequences.
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Now it would command television crews , gangs of itinerant Press men and jolly serious ball by ball radio commentary.
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From early morning the hotel was besieged by television crews , newspaper photographers and reporters.
■ VERB
carry
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This superb floating hotel has a passenger capacity of 1,610 and carries a staff and crew of almost 700.
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Norman B.. Clendenen, carrying a crew of 10 and one passenger, Capt.
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Each ship displaced nearly 45,000 tons and carried a crew of 1,900 officers and men.
kill
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It overturned and sank, killing 84 crew members.
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The crash killed the two crew members and three people on the ground.
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At best, they can entangle the nets of a fishing boat and kill the crew .
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The captain and four others were killed and 15 crew injured.
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The other came down near the village of Upper Heyford, killing its two crew members.
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With the rocket's armaments he rigged up an explosive which killed both the crew and the people of Dido.
send
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They can also send out crews quite easily to film their parliament or people.
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Samples of the material were collected and sent for analysis while crews worked to remove the material.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a motley collection/crew/assortment etc
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A group appear from the house, a motley collection like a troupe of clowns.
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A middle-aged couple got out and began to unload a motley collection of boxes and bags.
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All had several days' growth of beard and were dressed in a motley collection of civilian clothing.
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If so, is what you have put together really just a motley collection with a messy clash of styles and materials?
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Photographs of the period show groups of men in a motley collection of semi-uniform.
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The party is not a motley collection of ageing hippies, but an arm of a wealthy and complex organisation.
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When he stalked out he left her with a motley crew mostly of accountants and lawyers.
skeleton staff/crew/service etc
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A skeleton staff was on duty to keep the world-wide operations of Royalbion ticking over.
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The skeleton staff were no match for Massenga and his team of ex-Security policemen.
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The Automobile Association skeleton staff trio will be huddled in front of their personal computer screens relaying road conditions to drivers.
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The doc pointed out how appropriate it was to have a Skull in a skeleton crew.
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The Republicans and Democrats tick over with a skeleton staff and then hire specialist consultants for each campaign.
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There was only a skeleton staff on duty and no one took much notice of him.
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Various versions were filmed on closed sets with skeleton crews and strict security.
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Without you ghost ferries would cross the Mersey manned by skeleton crews.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Everyone aboard the Montreal Queen, including the crew , died.
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Everyone in the movie's cast and crew has done a great job.
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I'd like to thank you on behalf of the officers and crew .
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Jason's on the Boston College crew .
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The crew of the space shuttle will hold a press conference Friday.
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The captain and crew would like to welcome you on board Flight 381 to Geneva.
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We found a happy crew of foreign students in the hostel.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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For day-to-day mission operations the crew can use jeans and T-shirts or any clothing that they would wear on Earth.
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I clicked in the intercom and asked the crew chief and the gunner if they were ready.
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Johns decided to record Satriani live in the studio over the course of 12 days with a handpicked crew of session players.
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My injury would mean extra work for the rest of the crew .
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The Heritage was working out of Scarborough and her crew are believed to be from Bridlington.
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The pair died trying to rescue a downed helicopter crew during a 16-hour firefight in Mogadishu.
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Two fire crews from Bury attended the crash which happened in a torrential downpour.
II. verb
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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The U.S.S. Mason was crewed entirely by black sailors.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Some countries can crew one or two major movies simultaneously.