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snowball sampling

 
 
noun [U]

Definition

MARKETING a way of finding a large number of people so that you can get and study their opinions about something, by finding a few and then asking them to find others
(Definition of snowball sampling noun from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

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