ground crew

1. 1.

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

   Synonymsground-service crew

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Questions about ground crew

What does ground crew mean?

ground crew means "the crew of technicians and mechanics who service aircraft on the ground".

What is another word for ground crew?

Close synonyms include ground-service crew. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is ground crew a common word?

ground crew is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.