volunteer
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From Middle French voluntaire, from Latin voluntarius (“willing, voluntary”)
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volunteer (plural volunteers)
- One who enters into, or offers for, any service of his/her 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.
- (law) A person who acts out of his own will without a legal obligation, such as a donor.
- (botany) A plant that grows in disturbed soil.
- 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 obligation
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volunteer plant
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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
- (intransitive, botany) To grow without human sowing or intentional cultivation.
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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
