crew

A crew is a body or a class of people who work at a common activity, generally in a structured or hierarchical organization. A location in which a crew works is called a crewyard or a workyard. The word has nautical resonances: the tasks involved in operating a ship, particularly a sailing ship, providing numerous specialities within a ship's crew, often organised with a chain of command. Traditional nautical usage strongly distinguishes officers from crew, though the two groups combined form the ship's company. Members of a crew are often referred to by the title Crewman.

Crew also refers to the sport of rowing, where teams row competitively in racing shells.

See also

• For a specific sporting usage, see rowing crew.
• For filmmaking usage, see film crew.
• For live music usage, see road crew.
• For analogous entities in research on human judgment and decision-making, see team and judge–advisor system.
• For stagecraft usage, see stage crew.
• For video production usage, see television crew.
• For crews in aviation and the airline industry, see groundcrew and aircrew.
• For crews in human spaceflight, see astronaut.
• Tank crew
• Boat crew

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