crowd-source

A form of crowdsource — To delegate a task to a large, diffuse group.

Meanings

verbcrowd-source (third-person singular simple present crowd-sources, present participle crowd-sourcing, simple past and past participle crowd-sourced)

present singular third person crowd-sources · participle present crowd-sourcing · participle past crowd-sourced · past crowd-sourced

  1. alternativeAlternative form of crowdsource.

    The system is still learning though, and will improve how it handles situations thanks to crowd-sourced data from across the Mercedes network.

    2024 May 4, Mat Gallagher, “I tried Mercedes’ new autonomous driving in busy city streets – it's mind-blowing”, in T3
    2 more examples

    While first generation citizen science projects have successfully used the Web to crowd-source environmental data collection, “next generation” citizen science practice networks combine crowd-sourcing, joint sense of purpose, and soft […]

    2014, Nitin Agarwal, Merlyna Lim, Rolf T. Wigand, Online Collective Action: Dynamics of the Crowd in Social Media, Springer, →ISBN, page 133

    The[y] also met the new demands within the media landscape for a stream of newly-fashioned celebrities, while each season churning out a new, crowd-sourced popstar that the record label could guarantee would provide a chart-topping hit or two, as the audience were so invested, having spent the last 10 weeks racking up phone bills voting for them.

    2021 September 15, Laura Martin, “How talent shows became TV's most bizarre programmes”, in BBC
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APA

crowd-source. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/crowd-source

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Chicago

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