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crew up

crew up verb: to join a crew.

Verb

crew up (third-person singular simple present crews up, present participle crewing up, simple past and past participle crewed up)

  1. (intransitive) To join a crew
    • Although offered to us bona fide, this opportunity to crew up on the basis of our mutual and personal choices was largely illusory in practice. The reason for anyone wishing to crew up and fly with certain other selected individuals was generally self-preservation pure and simple.2003, Murray Peden, A Thousand Shall Fall: The True Story of a Canadian Bomber Pilot in World War Two

Forms of crew up

third-person singular presentcrews up
present participlecrewing up
past participlecrewed up
pastcrewed up

Questions about crew up

What does crew up mean?
Crew up means to join a crew.
What part of speech is crew up?
Crew up is a verb.
What is the past tense of crew up?
The past tense of crew up is crewed up.

Words near crew up in the dictionary

  1. crew necks
  2. crew over
  3. crew resource management
  4. crew sock
  5. crew socks
  6. crew up
  7. crew-cut
  8. crew-cutted
  9. crew-served
  10. crew-served weapon
  11. crew-served weapons

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