Meaning

1 senses
  1. (countable, uncountable)The delegation of a task to a large diffuse group in order to introduce new or more developed skill sets and improve efficiency. There is usually no substantial monetary compensation involved.

    краудсо́рсингkraudsórsing

More definitions
  • Work done by a large group of anonymous users

Translations

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By meaning 1
delegation of a task:

Origin

Coined by American journalist Jeff Howe in 2006, see quotations. From crowd + sourcing, by

Coined by American journalist Jeff Howe in 2006, see quotations. From crowd + sourcing, by analogy with outsourcing.

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Forms

plural: crowdsourcings
Singularcrowdsourcing
Pluralcrowdsourcings

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Synonyms

1 synonyms

Word family

2 related words

See also

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