all hands
Every single sailor
All hands means everyone available, especially the entire crew of a ship or workforce of an organization.
The phrase comes from nautical usage where hands meant sailors.
An all-hands meeting gathers every employee.
All hands on deck is a call for everyone to help with an urgent task: It's all hands on deck until we finish this project.
- mobilizeOrganize for action
- crewWorking team aboard
- ship's crewSailors aboard a vessel
- teamworkJoint effort toward shared aim
- every oneAll persons included
every last one · mutual aid · crewmember · able seaman · unity · shipmate · solidarity · emergency · battle stations · sailor · muster · rallying · collective · boatload · cooperation · shipboard · collaboration · crisis
- nautical termsahoy, afloat, aye aye, aye-aye, becalmed
- nautical phrasesahoy, aye aye, smooth sailing, yo ho ho, heave ho
- pirate talkahoy, arr, argh, aye, aye aye
- urgencyurgent, urgently, emergency, ASAP, stat
- workplace communicationemail, emails, memo, memos, meeting
- Star TrekSpock, Kirk, Enterprise, USS Enterprise, Captain Kirk
hierarchy/rank
all handssenior officers
Upper-echelon military leadership
brass · commissioned officers · wardroom · petty officers · bridge crew