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{{Short description|Team of people with a common goal}}

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File:STS-112 crew.jpg (Space Shuttle Atlantis, STS-112, 2002)]]

A crew is a body or a group 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.{{Cite book|title=Essentials of Management|lang=en|last=Dubrin|first=Andrew J.|publisher=South-Western publishing, Co.|year=2006|isbn=9780324321104|location=Nashville, TN}} 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 titles crewmate, crewman or crew-member.

Crew also refers to the sport of rowing, where teams row competitively in racing shells.{{cite web|url=http://www.speedrower.com/index.htm |title=Speed Rower, Competitive Rowing |lang=en|access-date=2009-02-05 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090609130144/http://www.speedrower.com/index.htm |archive-date=June 9, 2009 }}