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third-person singular simple present crowdsources, present participle crowdsourcing, simple past and past participle crowdsourced
To delegate a task to a large, diffuse group. quotations examples
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 New York Times