Used in a Sentence

crowdsource

Definition, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for crowdsource.

Editorial note

Let's crowdsource bribes, I mean lobby funds, for politicians and finally get some people's wishes through.

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Parts of speech1

Quick take

To delegate a task to a large, diffuse group.

Meaning at a glance

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verb

To delegate a task to a large, diffuse group.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for crowdsource.

verb

To delegate a task to a large, diffuse group.

Example sentences

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Let's crowdsource bribes, I mean lobby funds, for politicians and finally get some people's wishes through.

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That way you don't need to comb through every post and hopefully you crowdsource some helpful taxonomic data.

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How do you crowdsource finance in a way that you can take someone's money for 20 years?

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Also, namestation does good job in helping to crowdsource the naming (domain names) problem.

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Let's say a startup company wants to create a website to crowdsource music promotions.

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I wish Apple would crowdsource the approval process or look into setting up community-managed 'repositories' like Linux.

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And I'm yet to see an algorithm or crowdsource method that does it well.

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You crowdsource funds for something that doesn't exist yet.

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This is really interesting, but I'll second the intuition that building a critical mass for StreetView-like data is probably one of the hardest thing to crowdsource.

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I'd love to crowdsource some advice from HN.

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So maybe we should just crowdsource moderation!

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Just think: if everybody posted article snippets with no commentary, we could crowdsource the entire article being redundantly posted piecemeal to HN and nobody would need to click through to the article at all.

Quote examples

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Also "a famous enough artist to crowdsource a decent living with my art".

Frequently asked questions

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How do you use crowdsource in a sentence?

Let's crowdsource bribes, I mean lobby funds, for politicians and finally get some people's wishes through.

What does crowdsource mean?

To delegate a task to a large, diffuse group.

What part of speech is crowdsource?

crowdsource is commonly used as verb.