Meaning

1 senses

  1. To delegate a task to a large, diffuse group.

Examples

4 sentences

  1. We’re crowdsourcing an open-source dataset of voices.

    Isomorph · Tatoeba · CC0 · C2Open on TatoebaReport a problem

  2. The fun thing about crowdsourcing is letting other people do the work for us.

    deDas Lustige an der Arbeitsauslagerung liegt darin, dass man andere für sich schuften lässt. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

    papabear · Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · C2Open on TatoebaReport a problem

  3. Tatoeba is a crowdsourcing project.

    ruТатоэба — краудсорсинговый проект. — ZegPhig

    DJ_Saidez · Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · C2Open on TatoebaReport a problem

  4. Crowdsourcing is an exoteric practice.

    DuosDragonPolyglot · Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · C2Open on TatoebaReport a problem

Origin

From crowd + source; more at crowdsourcing.

From crowd + source; more at crowdsourcing.

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Forms

crowdsources, crowdsourcing, crowdsourced, crowdsourced
Base formcrowdsource · to crowdsource
3rd person singularcrowdsources
Present participlecrowdsourcing
Past simplecrowdsourced
Past participlecrowdsourced

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theycrowdsource
he, she, itcrowdsources

Past simpleLesson

all personscrowdsourced

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave crowdsourced
he, she, ithas crowdsourced

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill crowdsource

Word family

1 related words
Derivedcrowdsourcer

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
crowbarcrowdA2crownA2crucialB2
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