ship's company

1. 1.

   crew of a ship including the officers; the whole force or personnel of a ship

   Synonymscompany

   Broadercomplement

Questions about ship's company

What does ship's company mean?

ship's company means "crew of a ship including the officers; the whole force or personnel of a ship".

What is another word for ship's company?

Close synonyms include company. 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 ship's company a common word?

ship's company 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.