crowd-source
crowd-source is the alternative form of crowdsource.
Meaning of crowdsource
Verb
crowdsource (third-person singular simple present crowdsources, present participle crowdsourcing, simple past and past participle crowdsourced)
- To delegate a task to a large, diffuse group.
- 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
Forms of crowd-source
| third-person singular present | crowd-sources |
|---|---|
| present participle | crowd-sourcing |
| past participle | crowd-sourced |
| past | crowd-sourced |
Questions about crowd-source
- What is crowd-source the alternative form of?
- Crowd-source is the alternative form of crowdsource.
Words near crowd-source in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: crowd-source (page history and authors); crowdsource (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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