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crowdsourced

crowdsourced adjective: obtained by crowdsourcing. Also the simple past and past participle of crowdsource.

Adjective

crowdsourced (not comparable)

  1. Obtained by crowdsourcing.
    • The movement took on its modern form as it grew together with hackerspaces, crowdsourced science projects and online forums.2020, Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life, page 200
    • His desire to shed light on the proliferation of license plate readers in his neighborhood in Huntsville, Ala., this year spurred an idea for a crowdsourced database where people across the world can upload the locations of the readers.2024 November 14, Nathan Solis, “Are automated license plate readers in your city? Here’s how to find out”, in Los Angeles Times, archived from the original on 16 Dec 2024

Also used as

crowdsourced is also the simple past and past participle of crowdsource.

Origin of crowdsourced

From crowd + sourced.

Words formed from crowdsourced

Questions about crowdsourced

What does crowdsourced mean?
Crowdsourced means obtained by crowdsourcing.
What part of speech is crowdsourced?
Crowdsourced is an adjective.

Words near crowdsourced in the dictionary

  1. crowds up
  2. crowdsale
  3. crowdsales
  4. crowdsensing
  5. crowdsource
  6. crowdsourced
  7. crowdsourcer
  8. crowdsourcers
  9. crowdsources
  10. crowdsourcing
  11. crowdsourcings

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Adapted from Wiktionary: crowdsourced (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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