crowdsource
English
Etymology
From crowd + source; more at crowdsourcing.
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.
- 2009 August 30, William Safire, “Clunkers”, in The New York Times Magazine[1], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 3 April 2022:
- 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).
- 2013, David Alan Grier, Crowdsourcing For Dummies, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 319:
- 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.