crewing

Verb

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

1. (intransitive, transitive) To be a member of a vessel's crew.
   • We crewed together on a fishing boat last year.
2. (transitive) To be a member of a work or production crew.
   • The film was crewed and directed by students.
3. (transitive) To supply workers or sailors for a crew.
   • The seafood companies crewed huge trawlers with new fishermen, many of whom were fish-plant workers, since much of the work on board a modern trawler is fish processing.1997, Mark Kurlansky, Cod, page 182
4. To do the proper work of a sailor.
   • The crewing of the vessel before the crash was deficient.
5. To take on, recruit (new) crew.
   • The two ships will be crewing in the latter half of September.1967 January, “Tampa”, in The Pilot, page 30

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