"crowdsourcing" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Forms: crowdsourcings [plural]
Etymology: Coined by American journalist Jeff Howe in 2006, see quotations. From crowd + sourcing, by analogy with outsourcing. Etymology templates: {{coinage|en|Q87651943|in=2006|nobycat=1}} Coined by American journalist Jeff Howe in 2006, {{compound|en|crowd|sourcing}} crowd + sourcing Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} crowdsourcing (countable and uncountable, plural crowdsourcings)
  1. The delegation of a task to a large diffuse group in order to introduce new or more developed skill sets and improve efficiency. There is usually no substantial monetary compensation involved. Tags: countable, uncountable Synonyms: open outsourcing Related terms: crowdworker, lazyweb Translations (delegation of a task): 眾包 (Chinese Mandarin), 众包 (zhòngbāo) (Chinese Mandarin), joukkoistus (Finnish), joukkoistaminen (Finnish), joukkouttaminen (Finnish), talkoistaminen (Finnish), production participative [feminine] (French), externalisation ouverte [feminine] (French), urun daya (Indonesian), sumber khalayak (Malay), crowdsourcing [feminine, masculine] (Norwegian), جمعسپاری (jam'-sepâri) (Persian), краудсо́рсинг (kraudsórsing) [masculine] (Russian), crowdsourcing [masculine] (Spanish), torfoli (Welsh)
    Sense id: en-crowdsourcing-en-noun-ty-gEBt6

Verb [English]

Etymology: Coined by American journalist Jeff Howe in 2006, see quotations. From crowd + sourcing, by analogy with outsourcing. Etymology templates: {{coinage|en|Q87651943|in=2006|nobycat=1}} Coined by American journalist Jeff Howe in 2006, {{compound|en|crowd|sourcing}} crowd + sourcing Head templates: {{head|en|verb form}} crowdsourcing
  1. present participle and gerund of crowdsource Tags: form-of, gerund, participle, present Form of: crowdsource
    Sense id: en-crowdsourcing-en-verb-15U6RBNm Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 42 58

Inflected forms

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