Source etymology 1
Original entry ↗Any company of people; an assemblage; a throng. · 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. · The group of workers on a dramatic production who are not part of the cast.
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. · To do the proper work of a sailor.
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱer- Proto-Indo-European *-sḱéti Proto-Indo-European *ḱreh₁-sḱéti Latin crēscere Old French creistre Old French creuebor. Middle English crue English crew From Middle English crue, from Old French creue (“an increase, recruit, military reinforcement”), the feminine past participle of creistre (“grow”), from Latin crescere (“to arise, grow”).
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