CROWDFUND

PRONUNCIATION: (KRAUD-fuhnd)

MEANING: verb tr.: To fund a project by raising money from a large number of people, mostly strangers and usually via the Internet.

ETYMOLOGY: From crowd, from cruden (to press, to hurry) + fund, from Latin fundus (bottom, estate). Earliest documented use: 2008.
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CROW-FUND - ask random people for money for the benefit of Corvids

CROWD-FOUND - raise a mob

CROWN-FUND - see Morton's Fork