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crowdsources

crowdsources is the third-person singular simple present indicative of crowdsource.

Meaning of crowdsource

Verb

crowdsource (third-person singular simple present crowdsources, present participle crowdsourcing, simple past and past participle crowdsourced)

  1. 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

Questions about crowdsources

What is crowdsources the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Crowdsources is the third-person singular simple present indicative of crowdsource.

Words near crowdsources in the dictionary

  1. crowdsensing
  2. crowdsource
  3. crowdsourced
  4. crowdsourcer
  5. crowdsourcers
  6. crowdsources
  7. crowdsourcing
  8. crowdsourcings
  9. crowdsurf
  10. crowdsurfed
  11. crowdsurfer

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Adapted from Wiktionary: crowdsources (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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