Definition of "ship's company" []

• The entire crew of a ship, including the officers (noun)
• All of the occupants of a ship, including crew and passengers. (noun)

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• "I am much concerned to find from Monsieur Ronsard that your ship's company are so dreadfully afflicted with the scurvy."
• "Mr. Bice was picked up again on the 17th, having been unmolested during his visit; but two of the 'Lepers,' who had been at Espiritu Santo, had brought back a fearful story that a small two-masted vessel had there been mastered by the natives, and the crew killed and eaten in revenge for the slaughter of some men of their own by another ship's company some time back."
• "Thus purged of a very few refractories and inefficients, the ship's company was a happy, loyal and healthy crew, of whom the commander was justifiably proud."