{
    "term": "crew",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "ox3000": true,
    "cefr": "b2",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "all the people working on a ship, plane, etc.",
            "sensetop": "in a crew",
            "cefr": "b2",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "**crew members**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "all the men and women in the crew",
                    "contextForm": "in a crew"
                },
                {
                    "text": "None of the passengers and crew were injured."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The crew of the plane instructed everyone to remain seated."
                },
                {
                    "text": "a change of crew in Frankfurt"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The crew was/were extremely helpful."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Transport by water"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["experienced", "inexperienced", "novice"],
                "verb + crew": ["join", "lead", "assemble"],
                "crew + noun": ["member"],
                "preposition": ["in a/​the crew"],
                "phrases": ["cast and crew", "a member of the crew"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "all the people working on a ship, plane etc. except the officers who are in charge",
            "cefr": "b2",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "the officers and crew"
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["experienced", "inexperienced", "novice"],
                "verb + crew": ["join", "lead", "assemble"],
                "crew + noun": ["member"],
                "preposition": ["in a/​the crew"],
                "phrases": ["cast and crew", "a member of the crew"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 3,
            "definition": "a group of people with special skills working together",
            "cefr": "b2",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "a **film/camera/TV crew**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "**a fire/an emergency/a rescue crew**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "It took **ambulance crews** more than an hour to free them."
                },
                {
                    "text": "A fire crew was/were called to the scene."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The cast and crew of the movie are giving it their all."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Fire crews were called to the house at around 5 o'clock."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Maintenance crews have been working 18-hours shifts to repair the damage."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The film crew and the actors had all left the studio by then."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Our support crew followed behind in two Land Rovers."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The house was soon besieged by TV crews and photographers."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Two crews of six men carried out the work in shifts."
                },
                {
                    "text": "We have camera crews from ABC, CBS and NBC coming."
                },
                {
                    "text": "a maintenance/​support crew"
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["experienced", "inexperienced", "novice"],
                "verb + crew": ["join", "lead", "assemble"],
                "crew + noun": ["member"],
                "preposition": ["in a/​the crew"],
                "phrases": ["cast and crew", "a member of the crew"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 4,
            "definition": "a group of people",
            "labels": "(usually disapproving)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "The people she invited were a pretty **motley crew** *(= a strange mix of types of people)*."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Let's get a crew together and go to the pub."
                },
                {
                    "text": "We found him in the canteen with a crew of assorted computer geeks."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 5,
            "definition": "a team of people who row boats in races",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "a member of the Cambridge crew"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 6,
            "definition": "the sport of rowing with other people in a boat",
            "labels": "(North American English)",
            "cefr": "c1",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "I’m thinking of going out for crew this semester *(= joining the  team)*."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Sports: water sports"]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 7,
            "definition": "a person or team of people who sail boats in races or for pleasure (usually not including the captain)",
            "examples": []
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/kruː/",
                "audio": "cr/crew/crew__gb_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/kruːz/",
                "audio": "cr/crew/cruise__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/kruː/",
                "audio": "cr/crew/crew__us_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/kruːz/",
                "audio": "cr/crew/cruise__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "late 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.)."
}