SHIP'S COMPANY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does ship's company mean? 

• SHIP'S COMPANY (noun)
  The noun SHIP'S COMPANY has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: SHIP'S COMPANY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SHIP'S COMPANY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

company; ship's company

Hypernyms ("ship's company" is a kind of...):

complement; full complement (number needed to make up a whole force)

Meronyms (members of "ship's company"):

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

 Context examples 

“Here you are,” he cried, “and the doctor came last night from London. Bravo! The ship's company complete!”

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

The doctor himself is gone dead again you—'ungrateful scamp' was what he said; and the short and the long of the whole story is about here: you can't go back to your own lot, for they won't have you; and without you start a third ship's company all by yourself, which might be lonely, you'll have to jine with Cap'n Silver.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Every man on board seemed well content, and they must have been hard to please if they had been otherwise, for it is my belief there was never a ship's company so spoiled since Noah put to sea.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)