ship's company
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4.5
- noun
- Specialized
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tripulación del barco
- The captain requested a roll call to ensure that every member of the ship's company was present.
- the entire ship's company
Examples
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I shall cut the water allowance for the entire ship's company.
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Discipline was strict and swift to maintain law and order among the ship's company, and sailors learned right from wrong quickly under these unforgiving circumstances.
Academic text (2007) -
Account for all ship's company.
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I call this ship's company to bear witness.
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The ship's company will remember that I am your captain, judge and your jury.
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The ship's company will bear in mind... ...we are at sea under the articles of war.
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But I am alive and not drowned as all my ship's company was.
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It's the custom for the captain to address the ship's company on Commissioning Day to give them his policy and tell them the ship's programme.
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After a successful expedition, the ship's company was rewarded with half the booty, mainly consisting of cattle.
Academic text (2005) -
I suppose, in a way, it's gratifying to feel that out of a ship's company of 244 men, 243 have behaved as I hoped and expected they would.
Synonyms
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1.3
A group of people who work together to do a job, like running a ship or making a film
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2.4
A group of people organized to do a specific job, like soldiers or a ship crew
How Big
Surface Forms
Morphology
ship's + company
The meaning is directly built from 'ship's' (the possessive of ship) + 'company' (a group or unit of people), so a learner can infer 'the group belonging to the ship' — i.e. the crew. This possessive + group-noun composition is a common, cross-linguistic pattern and requires no idiomatic knowledge, making it readily understandable to a B1 learner who knows both constituents.
Etymology
Ship's company comes from a simple image: the ship's people who form a company, a group on board. So today it means 'the entire crew', all officers and other people who work on the ship.