volunteer
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[edit] Etymology
From Middle French voluntaire (French: volontaire < Latin: voluntarius) noun use of adjective meaning voluntary. Adjective is from the noun.
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[edit] Adjective
volunteer (comparative more volunteer, superlative most volunteer)
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- Of or pertaining to a volunteer or volunteers; consisting of volunteers; voluntary
- volunteer companies
- volunteer fire brigade
- volunteer advice
- (Agriculture) Growing spontaneously without being sown.
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of or pertaining to volunteers
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[edit] Noun
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volunteer (plural volunteers)
- One who enters into, or offers for, any service of his own free will, especially when done without pay.
- (military) One who enters into military service voluntarily, but who, when in service, is subject to discipline and regulations like other soldiers; -- opposed to conscript; specifically, a voluntary member of the organized militia of a country as distinguished from the standing army.
- (Can we verify(+) this sense?) A grantee in a voluntary conveyance; one to whom a conveyance is made without valuable consideration; a party, other than a wife or child of the grantor, to whom, or for whose benefit, a voluntary conveyance is made.
- (law) A person who acts out of his own will without a legal obligation, such as a donor.
- (Agriculture) A volunteer plant.
- A native or resident of the American state of Tennessee.
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one who voluntarily offers himself/herself for service
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voluntary soldier
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one who acts without legal onbligation
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volunteer plant
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[edit] Verb
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to volunteer (third-person singular simple present volunteers, present participle volunteering, simple past and past participle volunteered)
- (intransitive) To enlist oneself as a volunteer.
- (transitive) To do or offer to do something voluntarily.
- to volunteer for doing the dishes
- to volunteer an explanation
[edit] Translations
to enlist oneself as a volunteer
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to do or offer to do something voluntarily
[edit] References
- volunteer in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
