crew

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• noun A group of people working together; a gang.
• noun Slang A group of people, especially friends or associates.
• noun All personnel operating or serving aboard a ship.
• noun All of a ship's personnel except the officers.
• noun All personnel operating or serving aboard an aircraft in flight.
• noun A team of rowers, as of a racing shell.
• noun The sport of rowing.
• intransitive verb To serve as a member of a crew.
• intransitive verb To serve as a crew member on.

from The Century Dictionary.

• noun An archaic preterit of crow.
• noun An accession; a reinforcement; a company of soldiers or others sent as a reinforcement, or on an expedition. See accrue, n.
• noun Any company of people; an assemblage; a crowd: nearly always in a derogatory or a humorous sense.
• noun Nautical: The company of seamen who man a ship, vessel, or boat; the seamen belonging to a vessel; specifically, the common sailors of a ship's company.
• noun The company or gang of a ship's carpenter, gunner, boatswain, etc.
• noun Any company or gang of laborers engaged upon a particular work, as the company of men (engineer, fireman, conductor, brakemen, etc.) who manage and run a railroad-train.
• noun Synonyms Band, party, herd, mob, horde, throng.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• noun (Zoöl.) The Manx shearwater.
• imp. of crow
• noun A company of people associated together; an assemblage; a throng.
• noun The company of seamen who man a ship, vessel, or at; the company belonging to a vessel or a boat.
• noun In an extended sense, any small body of men associated for a purpose; a gang.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• noun A group of people (often staff) manning and operating a large facility or piece of equipment such as a factory, ship, boat, or airplane
• noun plural: crew A member of the crew of a vessel or plant
• noun nautical, plural: crew A member of a ship's company who is not an officer
• noun art The group of workers on a dramatic production who are not part of the cast
• noun art, plural: crew A worker on a dramatic production who is not part of the cast
• noun A group of people working together on a task
• noun informal, often derogatory A close group of friends
• noun often derogatory A set of individuals lumped together by the speaker
• noun slang, hip-hop A hip-hop group
• noun sports, rowing, uncountable The sport of competitive rowing.
• noun rowing A rowing team manning a single shell.
• verb transitive and intransitive To be a member of a vessel's crew
• verb To be a member of a work or production crew
• verb To supply workers or sailors for a crew
• verb nautical To do the proper work of a sailor
• verb nautical To take on, recruit (new) crew
• verb UK Simple past tense and past participle of crow. To have made the characteristic sound of a rooster.
• noun UK, dialectal A pen for livestock such as chickens or pigs

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• noun an informal body of friends
• noun the men and women who man a vehicle (ship, aircraft, etc.)
• verb serve as a crew member on
• noun the team of men manning a racing shell
• noun an organized group of workmen