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Crowdsource

nounverified·updated Aug 28, 2026

a type of participative online activity in which an individual, an institution, a non-profit organization, or company proposes to a group of individuals of varying knowledge, heterogeneity, and number, via a flexible open call, the voluntary undertaking of a task.

Towards an integrated crowdsourcing definition.

Classifications

Entity Type

Process75%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5
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Sensitivity

—60%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5
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Information Class

—70%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5
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Variants

plural
Crowdsources
possessive
Crowdsource's
pluralpossessive
Crowdsources'