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.[1]
"Crew" is used colloquially to refer to a small, tight-knit group of friends or associates engaged in criminal activity. Also used in reference to the traditional "unit" of criminals under the supervision of a caporegime in the American Mafia. However, the term is not specific to (Mafia-affiliated) organized crime.
Crew can refer simply to a group of friends, unrelated to crime or violence.
[edit] References
- ^ "Speed Rower, Competive Rowing". http://www.speedrower.com/index.htm. Retrieved 2009-02-05.
[edit] See also
- For a specific sporting usage, see Rowing (sport).
- 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 the comic strip, see Motley's Crew.
- For the sports team, see Columbus Crew.
