demolition crew
Structural teardown team
A demolition crew is a team of workers who tear down buildings and other structures.
The term applies both to professionals using heavy equipment and explosives, and more casually to any group dismantling something: The demolition crew brought down the old stadium in under a minute.
Figuratively, it can describe people who systematically destroy something abstract: The lawyers acted as a demolition crew on the prosecution's case.
- wrecking ballCrane-swung demolition weight
- bulldozerBladed vehicle pushing earth
- rubbleBroken building fragments
- sledgehammerMassive long-handled mallet
- hard hatsRigid protective headgear
hard hat area · dust · debris · jackhammer · excavator · implosion · destruction · dynamite · scaffolding · condemned building · concrete · steel · collapse · safety vests · safety gear · crane · wreckage · salvage
- demolitionraze, bulldoze, wreck, wrecking ball, knock down
- work crews
- destructive forcesearthquake, tornado, hurricane, tsunami, volcano
- builderscarpenter, builder, mason, contractor, bricklayer
demolition crewbuilders
Those who construct things
construction workers · general contractors · masons · carpenters · steelworkers
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