crew
noun · verb
Simple meaning
A group of people who work together on a ship or airplane
Pronunciation
Say it like this:
krooIPA pronunciation (US)
ˈkɹu
This word is pronounced essentially the same in American and British English, so one transcription covers both.
IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) is a standard way of writing speech sounds.
Definition
Everyday modern meanings first, grouped by part of speech.
noun
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.
A group of people working together on a task.
plural: crew
A member of the crew of a vessel or plant.
A person in a crew
(British, dialectal chiefly Scotland, Northern England, East Midlands) A pen for livestock such as chickens or pigs
A townland in County Antrim, Northern Ireland.
verb
Serve as a crew member on
transitive and intransitive
To be a member of a vessel's crew
To be a member of a work or production crew
To supply workers or sailors for a crew
Word Aura™
How this word commonly comes across.
Aura for this meaning
This meaning: 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.
Used this way, crew is a reasonably familiar word that usually carries little praise or criticism of its own. It usually sounds natural in a wide range of settings.
- Emotional tone
- Neutral
- Formality
- Neutral
- Intensity
- Not strongly marked
- How common
- Moderately common
- Connotation
- Matter-of-fact
- Usage feel
- Neutral and straightforward
Word Aura describes common impressions, not a measurement. Tone changes with sentence, speaker, relationship and situation.
More ways to use crew
- “The airplane crew was very friendly and helpful during our flight.”noun
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