crewer

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noun

A member of a crew, as on a ship or spacecraft

Scrabble 11

Meanings

nouncrewer (plural crewers)

plural crewers

  1. informalA member of a crew, as on a ship or spacecraft

    This part of the ship is for crewers only.

    2002, Timothy Zahn, Angelmass, →ISBN, page 24
  2. A person in charge of locating the technical crew for a media production

    For much of the crew, a regional crewer will be contracted to provide camera operators, A2s, […]

    2006, Marc A. Krein, Sheree Martin, “60 Seconds to Air”, in Arthur A. Raney, Jennings Bryant, editors, Handbook of Sports and Media, →ISBN, page 271
  3. A competitive rower

    […] we will begin cutting until we have 50 crewers left for the novice team.

    1999 September 22, Amy Bush, quoting Kristen Mermagen, “Women's crew looks for recruits”, in The Lantern, Columbus, Ohio: Ohio State University

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Origin

  1. Proto-Indo-European*ḱer-
  2. Proto-Indo-European*ḱreh₁-sḱéti
  3. Latincrēscere
  4. Old Frenchcreistre
  5. Old Frenchcreue
  6. Middle Englishcrue
  7. Englishcrew
  8. Englishcrewer

From crew + -er.

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APA

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MLA

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Chicago

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