Crew vs. Gang — What's the Difference?

A crew is a body or a class 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.

A gang is a group or society of associates, friends or members of a family with a defined leadership and internal organization that identifies with or claims control over territory in a community and engages, either individually or collectively, in illegal, and possibly violent, behavior. Gangs arose in America by the middle of the nineteenth century and were a concern for city leaders from the time they appeared.

A group of people working together; a gang

A group of criminals or hoodlums who band together for mutual protection and profit.

(Slang) A group of people, especially friends or associates.

A group of adolescents who band together, especially a group of delinquents.

All personnel operating or serving aboard a ship.

(Informal) A group of people who associate regularly on a social basis

All of a ship's personnel except the officers.

A group of laborers organized together on one job or under one foreperson

All personnel operating or serving aboard an aircraft in flight.

A matched or coordinated set, as of tools

A team of rowers, as of a racing shell.

A pack of wolves or wild dogs.

The sport of rowing.

A herd, especially of buffalo or elk.

To serve as a member of a crew

Variant of gangue.

To serve as a crew member on

To band together as a group or gang.

A past tense of crow2.

To arrange or assemble into a group, as for simultaneous operation or production

A group of people together

To attack as an organized group.

(obsolete) Any company of people; an assemblage; a throng.

To go; walk; proceed.

A group of people (often staff) manning and operating a large facility or piece of equipment such as a factory, ship, boat, airplane, or spacecraft.

(transitive) To attach similar items together to form a larger unit.

A group of people working together on a task.

Pronunciation spelling of gan

(arts) The group of workers on a dramatic production who are not part of the cast.

Synonym of gangbang: to have sex with a single partner as a gang.

A close group of friends.

A number going in company; a number of friends or persons associated for a particular purpose.

A set of individuals lumped together by the speaker.

A group of laborers under one foreman; a squad.

(Scouting) A group of Rovers.

A criminal group with a common cultural background and identifying features, often associated with a particular section of a city.

A hip-hop or b-boying group.

A group of criminals or alleged criminals who band together for mutual protection and profit.

(rowing) A rowing team manning a single shell.

A group of politicians united in furtherance of a political goal.

A person in a crew

(US) A chain gang.

(plural: crew) A member of the crew of a vessel or plant.

A combination of similar tools or implements arranged so as, by acting together, to save time or labor; a set.

A worker on a dramatic production who is not part of the cast.

A set; all required for an outfit.

A member of a ship's company who is not an officer.

(electrics) A number of switches or other electrical devices wired into one unit and covered by one faceplate.

The sport of competitive rowing.

(electrics) A group of wires attached as a bundle.

A pen for livestock such as chickens or pigs

A going, journey; a course, path, track.

To be a member of a vessel's crew

(obsolete) An outhouse: an outbuilding used as a lavatory.

To be a member of a work or production crew

To go; to walk.

To supply workers or sailors for a crew

A going; a course.

(nautical) To do the proper work of a sailor

A number going in company; hence, a company, or a number of persons associated for a particular purpose; a group of laborers under one foreman; a squad; as, a gang of sailors; a chain gang; a gang of thieves.

(nautical) To take on, recruit (new) crew

A combination of similar implements arranged so as, by acting together, to save time or labor; a set; as, a gang of saws, or of plows.

The Manx shearwater.

A set; all required for an outfit; as, a new gang of stays.

A company of people associated together; an assemblage; a throng.

The mineral substance which incloses a vein; a matrix; a gangue.

The company of seamen who man a ship, vessel, or at; the company belonging to a vessel or a boat.

A group of teenagers or young adults forming a more or less formalized group associating for social purposes, in some cases requiring initiation rites to join; as, a teen gang; a youth gang; a street gang.

In an extended sense, any small body of men associated for a purpose; a gang; as (Naut.), the carpenter's crew; the boatswain's crew.

A group of persons organized for criminal purposes; a criminal organization; as, the Parker gang.

The men who man a ship or aircraft

An association of criminals;

An organized group of workmen

An informal body of friends;

An informal body of friends;

An organized group of workmen

The team of men manning a racing shell

Tool consisting of a combination of implements arranged to work together

Serve as a crew member on

Act as an organized group