VOLUNTEER
\vˌɒləntˈi͡ə], \vˌɒləntˈiə], \v_ˌɒ_l_ə_n_t_ˈiə]\
Definitions of VOLUNTEER
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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a person who freely enlists for (military) service
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a person who performs voluntary work
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agree freely; "She volunteered to drive the old lady home"; "I offered to help with the dishes but the hostess would not hear of it"
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tell voluntarily; "He volunteered the information"
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do volunteer work
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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a person who performs voluntary work
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agree freely; "She volunteered to drive the old lady home"; "I offered to help with the dishes but the hostess would not hear of it"
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tell voluntarily; "He volunteered the information"
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do volunteer work
By Princeton University
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One who enters into, or offers for, any service of his own free will.
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One who enters into 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.
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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.
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Of or pertaining to a volunteer or volunteers; consisting of volunteers; voluntary; as, volunteer companies; volunteer advice.
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To offer or bestow voluntarily, or without solicitation or compulsion; as, to volunteer one's services.
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To enter into, or offer for, any service of one's own free will, without solicitation or compulsion; as, he volunteered in that undertaking.
By Oddity Software
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One who enters into, or offers for, any service of his own free will.
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One who enters into 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.
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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.
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Of or pertaining to a volunteer or volunteers; consisting of volunteers; voluntary; as, volunteer companies; volunteer advice.
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To offer or bestow voluntarily, or without solicitation or compulsion; as, to volunteer one's services.
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To enter into, or offer for, any service of one's own free will, without solicitation or compulsion; as, he volunteered in that undertaking.
By Noah Webster.
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One who enters into any service of his own free will; one who offers himself for military service.
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To offer one's services freely; to enter of one's own accord into military service.
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To offer or bestow without constraint or compulsion.
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Pertaining to voluntoers or to their work.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By James Champlin Fernald
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One who enters any service, esp. military, voluntarily or of his own free choice.
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Entering into service voluntarily.
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To enter into any service of one's own free will or without being asked.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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Voluntarily entering into service; composed of volunteers.
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A person who enters into military or other service of his own free will.
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To offer or bestow voluntarily.
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To enter into any service of one's free-will, without solicitation or compulsion.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
