GROUND CREW Synonyms

• the men and women who man a vehicle (ship, aircraft, etc.)

• an organized group of workmen

• an informal body of friends

• the team of men or women manning a racing shell

• serve as a crew member on

• a powerful effect or influence

• (physics) the influence that produces a change in a physical quantity

• physical energy or intensity

• group of people willing to obey orders

• a unit that is part of some military service

• an act of aggression (as one against a person who resists)

• one possessing or exercising power or influence or authority

• a group of people having the power of effective action

• (of a law) having legal validity

• a putout of a base runner who is required to run; the putout is accomplished by holding the ball while touching the base to which the runner must advance before the runner reaches that base

• to cause to do through pressure or necessity, by physical, moral or intellectual means

• urge or force (a person) to an action; constrain or motivate

• move with force

• impose urgently, importunately, or inexorably

• squeeze like a wedge into a tight space

• force into or from an action or state, either physically or metaphorically

• do forcibly; exert force

• take by force

• an association of criminals

• an informal body of friends

• an organized group of workmen

• tool consisting of a combination of implements arranged to work together

• act as an organized group

• group of people willing to obey orders

• the department responsible for hiring and training and placing employees and for setting policies for personnel management

• a smallest army unit

• a cooperative unit (especially in sports)

• a small squad of policemen trained to deal with a particular kind of crime

• personnel who assist their superior in carrying out an assigned task

• a strong rod or stick with a specialized utilitarian purpose

• the body of teachers and administrators at a school

• building material consisting of plaster and hair; used to cover external surfaces of temporary structure (as at an exposition) or for decoration

• a rod carried as a symbol

• (music) the system of five horizontal lines on which the musical notes are written

• provide with staff

• serve on the staff of

• a cooperative unit (especially in sports)

• two or more draft animals that work together to pull something

• form a team

• any division of quantity accepted as a standard of measurement or exchange

• an individual or group or structure or other entity regarded as a structural or functional constituent of a whole

• an organization regarded as part of a larger social group

• a single undivided whole

• a single undivided natural thing occurring in the composition of something else

• an assemblage of parts that is regarded as a single entity

• the force of workers available

• a worker who is hired to perform a job

• a person who works at a specific occupation

• a member of the working class (not necessarily employed)

• sterile member of a colony of social insects that forages for food and cares for the larvae

• a person who acts and gets things done

• the crew of technicians and mechanics who service aircraft on the ground