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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
crewman
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A third of services were to take off sick crewmen.
▪ Glenn Jeffers was a helicopter crewman throughout 1968, one of the worst times to serve with a combat division.
▪ However, if two crewmen are slain, the remaining crewman will be unable to maintain the normal rate of fire.
▪ If one crewman is slain the other two can just about get by without reducing the rate of fire.
▪ Mr Glennie and crewman Rick Hellriegel wrote diaries during the trip.
▪ One crewman attempted to red-flag the driver, who seemed oblivious to the caution signs.
▪ One of the most recent victims to be found was Ignacio Camacho, 43, a crewman aboard the Iliana.
▪ Reynolds served with a mechanized unit, but like many crewmen, he fought on the ground more than once.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
crewman

crewman \crew"man\ (kr[udd]"man), n. any member of a ship's crew.

Syn: sailor.

2. a member of a flight crew.

Syn: crew member.

3. a member of a work crew.

Wiktionary
crewman

n. 1 A member of a crew, especially the crew of a ship. 2 (context Canada military English) The military trade of armoured crewman, abbreviated.

WordNet
crewman
  1. n. any member of a ship's crew [syn: sailor]

  2. a member of a flight crew [syn: crew member]

  3. a member of a work crew

Wikipedia
Crewman

Crewman is a generic term for a crew member of an aircraft, naval vessel, military unit, or team of professionals attempting to accomplish a goal. In some science fiction (most notably Star Trek), crewman is the lowest military rank on board a spacecraft, analogous to seaman in many real world navies.

The term "crewman" may also be used interchangeably with the non-gender specific form as "crewperson" or "crewmember".

Category:Military ranks

Usage examples of "crewman".

OFF severmorsk naval complex USS allentown As the radioman handed Commander Henry Duckett the flash message, he felt the eyes of the crewmen on him, awaiting word to launch the Javelins.

But she did note that Anh barely spoke to a fellow crewman other than to provide information.

Besides Tom, Bolen, Tschudi, and two other scientists, the probe crew included Bud, Arv Hanson, Chow, and three regular space crewmen.

They had returned to stand the midwatch after being relieved at the controls by Arv and the other crewmen.

Their booms creaked and groaned as they swung the pallets of sacks from dockside to deck hatches, where the crewmen, as black begrimed as everything else in sight, wedged them down into the remaining hold space.

She took the hardcopy of the contract, flipped through the pages, and wrote in the margin an addendum specifying 100,000 credits compensation for the death of crewman Gary Tobai, signed it, and slid it across to Kalin for his initials.

Barnes and Dasi would deal with the crewmen as they returned to the ship, barring the lower end of the companionway while a large armed party waited at C Level, the next deck above the entrance hatch.

But under the bristle, Kirk and the other crewmen could see that the actual bodies were composed of the same furry ropellke extensions, also bunching up tightly near the base and spreading out into footlike protrusions.

Should any of the ships involved in the attack on Gijon be sunk or run aground or prized, should any of the soldiers or crewmen or nobles be captured, they were completely on their own and King Arthur would disavow any slightest knowledge of them and their nefarious ventures into kingdoms with which the Crown was at peace.

Instead he has selected William Lanney to serve as the fifth crewman along with four Maori whalemen led by Hammerhead Jack, an impressive giant of a man.

Once it was hooked up, Batman knew, another crewman would check the holdback bar that would keep the Tomcat from breaking free until the moment of the launch, and the jet-blast deflector would rise into position behind the plane.

Some of the Melungeon crewmen were directly across the pit, itself less than thirty meters in radius.

The Melungeon crewmen continued to babble to one another at the clarity of the image even as Maginnes shooed them out to make room for another group of sightseers.

One of the lines they had severed had been that by which the big lantern had been hoist to and held at the masthead, and when it came plunging down on deck, it had smashed and the oil spreading out from it had been fired by the still-lit wick to confront the crewmen and officers who came spilling out from the passages with an immediate concern that, for the moment, occupied them so thoroughly that they did not at once notice the fact that the ship was no longer secured by its anchor and was drifting with the river current, stern-foremost, down toward the treacherous bars and mudbanks just above the mouth of the Rio Oso.

The hit rocked Ryan out of the nav chair, and for all the talk about not lifting a finger, Shucorion bothered to pick the crewman up and hurry him back to his post.