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Crossbencher
Crossbencher: a non-party legislator sitting on the cross benches between government and opposition, notably the organized Crossbench group in the UK House of Lords and independents and minor-party members in Australian parliaments.
Crossfire Hurricane (FBI investigation)
Crossfire Hurricane, the FBI counterintelligence investigation opened July 31, 2016 into Trump campaign Russia ties, examined by the DOJ Inspector General for Carter Page FISA failures and by Durham.
Crossing of cheques
Crossing of cheques, or a crossed cheque, is two parallel lines drawn on a check directing that it be paid only through a bank, codified in the UK Bills of Exchange Act 1882.
Crossing of the Andes
The Crossing of the Andes (Cruce de los Andes) was José de San Martín's 1817 march of the Army of the Andes from Argentina into Chile, leading to victory at Chacabuco.
Crossing of the Yangtze under Emperor Yuan of Jin
The Crossing of the Yangtze under Emperor Yuan of Jin (衣冠南渡) was the Jin court's southward migration after Luoyang fell in 311, founding the Eastern Jin at Jiankang.
Crossing the Chasm
Crossing the Chasm is a 1991 business book by Geoffrey A. Moore on marketing technology to mainstream customers, known for the chasm between early adopters and pragmatists.
Crossing the Red Sea
The crossing of the Red Sea, or yam suph (יַם סוּף), is the Israelites' escape from Egypt through parted waters in Exodus 14, commemorated at Passover.
Crossing the Rubicon
Crossing the Rubicon: Julius Caesar's 10-11 January 49 BCE march with his army across the Rubicon river from Cisalpine Gaul into Italy, defying the Senate, sparking the civil war against Pompey, and giving English the idiom for an irreversible decision.
Crosslayer Capital
Crosslayer Capital is a San Francisco-based blockchain venture fund of funds that allocates capital to other blockchain and web3 venture managers rather than investing directly in start-ups.
Crosslink Ventures
Crosslink Ventures is the series of venture capital funds managed by Crosslink Capital, Inc., a Menlo Park, California firm founded in 1989 that invests in early-stage technology companies.
Crossroads School (Santa Monica, California)
Crossroads School for Arts & Sciences is a private, progressive K-12 day school in Santa Monica, California, founded in 1971 by Paul Cummins and Rhoda Makoff, with about 1,200 students on two campuses.
Crotale (missile)
Crotale is a French short-range surface-to-air missile system developed by Thomson-CSF from 1964, entering production in 1969 with the R.440 missile and later versions built around the VT-1 missile.
Croupier
Croupier (also dealer): casino table-game employee who runs roulette, blackjack, baccarat, and poker, taking bets, paying winnings, and enforcing rules. Covers training (6–12 weeks UK, 340 hours Spain), licensing, tips versus wages, and working conditions.
Crow Creek massacre
Crow Creek massacre: prehistoric attack around AD 1325 on the fortified Crow Creek Village (39BF11) in South Dakota, killing and mutilating at least 486 Arikara-affiliated villagers, found as a bone pile in 1978.
Crow Holdings Realty Partners
Crow Holdings Realty Partners is a Dallas-based series of diversified value-add real estate private equity funds managed by Crow Holdings Capital, the investment arm of Crow Holdings.
Crow language
Crow (Apsáalooke) is a Siouan language of the Crow Reservation in southeastern Montana, related to Hidatsa, with several thousand speakers, SOV head-final grammar, and active revitalization programs.
Crow people
The Crow people (Apsáalooke, children of the large-beaked bird) are a Siouan-speaking Northern Plains nation, a Hidatsa offshoot on the Yellowstone River, whose Montana reservation of about 2.3 million acres is the state's largest.
Crow Terrace Poetry Case
The Crow Terrace Poetry Case (乌台诗案) was a 1079 Song dynasty literary inquisition in which Su Shi was tried for satirizing the government and exiled to Huangzhou.
Crowd psychology
Crowd psychology, founded with Gustave Le Bon's 1895 La psychologie des foules, studies how group membership changes individual behavior; deindividuation theory failed meta-analytic testing and was replaced by social identity models (SIDE, ESIM) used in crowd safety and evacuation planning.
Crowdfunding
Crowdfunding, also called crowd financing, is the practice of raising money for a project or business through an internet platform, taking four main forms: rewards, equity, loans, and donations.
Crowding out (economics)
Crowding out, also called the crowding-out effect, is the reduction in private investment that occurs when government borrowing absorbs national saving and raises interest rates.
Crowdsensing
Crowdsensing is a sensor-based subtype of crowdsourcing in which many people use mobile device sensors to capture measurements, aggregated into large-scale datasets and maps of phenomena of common interest.
Crowdsourcing
Crowdsourcing is outsourcing work to a large, undefined crowd through an open call, a term coined by Jeff Howe in 2006, now spanning microtasks and citizen science.
Crowfoot
Crowfoot (Isapo-muxika, ca. 1830-1890), Siksika Blackfoot chief born Kainai, warrior of 19 battles, first signatory of Treaty 7 in 1877, kept the Blackfoot out of the 1885 rebellion, adopted Poundmaker, died April 25, 1890.
Crown
Crown: ceremonial jeweled headwear symbolizing monarchy, and the legal personification of sovereign authority. Covers St Edward's and Imperial State Crowns, the Vienna Imperial Crown, Danish regalia, and the Crown in constitutional monarchies.
Crown Bavet Casino
Crown Bavet Casino (កាស៊ីណូក្រោនបាវិត), a 24-hour casino and hotel on National Road 1 in Bavet City, Svay Rieng, Cambodia, near the Moc Bai border; tied to Crown Resorts Co Ltd, US-sanctioned in 2026 and linked by Amnesty to forced labour.
Crown Chancery
The Crown Chancery (Polish: Kancelaria Koronna) was the central chancery of the Kingdom of Poland, later of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, responsible for producing, sealing, and registering royal documents and decrees.
Crown colony
A Crown colony was a British colonial administration under direct Crown authority, run by an appointed governor. The system was devised for Martinique by Lord Hawkesbury in 1770.
Crown Colony of Labuan
The Crown Colony of Labuan was a British island colony off the north-west coast of Borneo, ceded by Brunei in 1846 and made a Crown Colony in 1848.
Crown Estate
The Crown Estate: independent commercial business managing the British Sovereign's hereditary land, seabed and property in England, Wales and Northern Ireland; profits go to HM Treasury and benchmark the 12% Sovereign Grant.