crowdfundv.
/ˈkraʊdfʌnd/, U.S. /ˈkraʊdˌfənd/ transitive. To fund (a project or venture) by raising money from a large number of people, each of whom contributes a relatively small amount, typically via the internet. Also intransitive.
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2008 Guardian 27 June (Film & Music section) 4/4 One unsuspected advantage of being crowd-funded is that we have a support network of people all willing us on.
2009 Computer Reseller News 13 July 18/2 The Age of Stupid..was crowdfunded from the start (the first £50,000 was rumoured to have come from punters in a London bar on a single night).
2011 Straits Times (Singapore) (Nexis) 30 Nov. Creators crowdfund by asking people who like their work to donate money to fund their projects.
2013 Herald-Times (Bloomington, Indiana) 30 Sept. b6/3 Caroline attempts to crowdfund the purchase of an expensive pair of new pants through an online fundraising website.
2014 Australasian Sci. Mar. 29/1 [She] was one of the first researchers in Australia to successfully run a campaign to crowdfund their research.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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