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to crowdfund

to crowdfund

2 3.9
To raise money by collecting small donations from many people online
  • verb
  • /ˈkraʊdˌfʌnd/
  • Texting
translation icon : financiar colectivamente
  • To fund their project, they turned to Kickstarter, a web-based platform for crowdfunding creative ideas.

They don't have the means to, if I do have to crowdfund, for example.

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Examples

  • This movie was crowdfunded, and I started out as one of the crowdfunders.

  • So something like that could be a very cool way to crowdfund our videos, so to speak.

  • One even crowdfunded a project herself just recently.

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  • So the first thing I had to do was put the claim in and then the next thing I had to do was crowdfund for the money to pay for pay for lawyers.

  • The article notes that scientists from several leading universities have taken to crowdfunding their projects.

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  • So, that means that the first crowdfunded offerings are going to go online around September of 2013.

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  • Another method for funding more daring titles is crowdfunding.

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  • Teespring allows you to crowdfund awesome custom apparel.

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  • Hello, thank you very much for the informative video. I'm thinking of crowdfunding a small project sometime next year.

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  • Many entrepreneurs use online platforms to crowdfund their innovative projects.

Synonyms

to fund-raise
vsto crowdfund
9 3.5

To collect money to help a cause or project

raises funds by many small online contributions rather than by events
to fundraise
vsto crowdfund
5 3.5

To collect money for a charity by asking people or holding events

raises funds from many small internet contributions rather than events

Surface Forms

crowdfund infinitive
crowdfunded past participle
crowdfunding present participle
crowdfunds third person singular

Morphology

crowdfund = crowd + fund (transparent) = crowd + fund

The meaning is directly recoverable from 'crowd' + 'fund': raising funds from a crowd of people.

Etymology

Crowdfund as a verb comes from crowd ('a large group of people') and fund ('money for a purpose'), so to crowdfund is to raise money online by asking many people to give small amounts.