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crowdwork

crowdwork noun: crowdsourced work.

Noun

crowdwork (uncountable)

  1. Crowdsourced work.
  2. (stand-up comedy) The process or an instance of working the crowd.
    • His set usually includes a few minutes of crowdwork.

Verb

crowdwork (third-person singular simple present crowdworks, present participle crowdworking, simple past and past participle crowdworked)

  1. To perform crowdsourced work.
    • In both the Global North and the Global South, women reported more frequently than men that they crowdworked because they preferred to, or could only, work from home. In particular, the response 'can only work from home' had a ten percentage-point difference between women and men in the Global...2021 November 19, Janine Berg, Uma Rani, “Working conditions, geography and gender in global crowdwork”, in Work and Labour Relations in Global Platform Capitalism, Geneva: Edward Elgar Publishing...

Forms of crowdwork

Noun
alternative formcrowd work
Verb
third-person singular presentcrowdworks
present participlecrowdworking
past participlecrowdworked
pastcrowdworked

Origin of crowdwork

From crowd + work.

Questions about crowdwork

What does crowdwork mean?
Crowdwork means crowdsourced work.
What part of speech is crowdwork?
Crowdwork can be a noun or a verb.

Words near crowdwork in the dictionary

  1. crowdsurfer
  2. crowdsurfers
  3. crowdsurfing
  4. crowdsurfs
  5. crowdtesting
  6. crowdwork
  7. crowdworked
  8. crowdworker
  9. crowdworkers
  10. crowdworking
  11. crowdworks

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Adapted from Wiktionary: crowdwork (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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