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Definition of crew verb from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

crew

verb
 
/kruː/
 
/kruː/
 [transitive, intransitive]
Verb Forms
present simple I / you / we / they crew
 
/kruː/
 
/kruː/
he / she / it crews
 
/kruːz/
 
/kruːz/
past simple crewed
 
/kruːd/
 
/kruːd/
past participle crewed
 
/kruːd/
 
/kruːd/
-ing form crewing
 
/ˈkruːɪŋ/
 
/ˈkruːɪŋ/
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  1. to be part of a crew, especially on a ship
    • crew (something) Normally the boat is crewed by five people.
    • crew (for somebody) I crewed for him on his yacht last summer.
    Homophones crews | cruisecrews   cruise
     
    /kruːz/
     
    /kruːz/
    • crews noun (plural of crew)
      • Fire crews were called to the scene.
    • crews verb (third person of crew)
      • He crews for a billionaire on his yacht.
    • cruise noun
      • We're taking a cruise around the Mediterranean.
    • cruise verb
      • I'd love to cruise down the Nile.
    Topics Sports: water sportsc1
    Word Originlate Middle English: from Old French creue ‘augmentation, increase’, feminine past participle of croistre ‘grow’, from Latin crescere. The original sense was ‘band of soldiers serving as reinforcements’; hence it came to denote any organized armed band or, generally, a company of people (late 16th cent.).
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