crowdsource

present singular third person crowdsources · participle present crowdsourcing · participle past crowdsourced · past crowdsourced

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

   As soon as you become a crowdsourcer, you might start to wonder how crowdsourcing itself is developing and where it's heading. […] Who knows—you might even decide to crowdsource your dilemma.

   2013, David Alan Grier, Crowdsourcing For Dummies, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 319

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   And I sometimes “crowdsource,” asking for help in research from the Lexicographic Irregulars (like when I asked for sign-language suggestions for “thanks” and learned how the little Dutch boy felt when he pulled his finger out of the dike).

   2009 August 30, William Safire, “Clunkers”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 03 Apr 2022