Crowdwork

noun, verb

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Crowdsourced work. uncountable
  2. 2
    The process or an instance of working the crowd. uncountable

    "His set usually includes a few minutes of crowdwork."

Verb
  1. 1
    To perform crowdsourced work.

    "In both the Global North and the Global South, women reported more frequently than men that they crowdworked because they preferred to, or could only, work from home. In particular, the response 'can only work from home' had a ten percentage-point difference between women and men in the Global South (17 per cent for women versus 7 per cent for men) and an eight percentage-point difference in the Global North (13 percent for women versus 5 per cent for men)."

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"His set usually includes a few minutes of crowdwork."

Etymology

From crowd + work.

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