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To ask the public — lots of ordinary people, often online — to do a job or think of ideas for you, usually for little or no money. A company might crowdsource a new logo, a translation, or a name for a product. It is a verb. The idea sits next to (sending work to another company), except here you send it out to “the crowd.” It is not crowdfunding: that is about collecting money, not collecting work. Companies like the cheap labour; workers and designers sometimes feel they are being asked to give their skill away.
群眾外包（當動詞用）
組成From crowd + source; more at crowdsourcing.
同家族的字
- crowdthe public asked to do the work
- sourcewhere the work or ideas are taken from
- crowdsourcingthe noun for the same practice
- outsourcingthe older pattern of sending work out; crowdsource sends it to the public instead
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
crowdsourceverb
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To delegate a task to a large, diffuse group.
- 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).
- 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.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。