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Volunteer

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Noun

1. military volunteer, voluntary, volunteer

(military) a person who freely enlists for service

2. unpaid worker, volunteer

a person who performs voluntary work

3. tennessean, volunteer

a native or resident of Tennessee

Verb

4. volunteer

tell voluntarily

Example Sentences:
'He volunteered the information'

5. offer, volunteer

agree freely

Example Sentences:
'She volunteered to drive the old lady home'
'I offered to help with the dishes but the hostess would not hear of it'

6. volunteer

do volunteer work

Adjective

7. unpaid, volunteer

without payment

Example Sentences:
'the soup kitchen was run primarily by unpaid helpers'
'a volunteer fire department'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Volunteer

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noun
1. 
a. 
a person who performs or offers to perform voluntary service
b. 
(as modifier)
a volunteer system
volunteer advice
2. 
a person who freely undertakes military service, esp temporary or special service
3. law
a. 
a person who does some act or enters into a transaction without being under any legal obligation to do so and without being promised any remuneration for his or her services
b. property law
a person to whom property is transferred without his or her giving any valuable consideration in return, as a legatee under a will
4. 
a. 
a plant that grows from seed that has not been deliberately sown
b. 
(as modifier)
a volunteer plant
verb
5. 
to offer (oneself or one's services) for an undertaking by choice and without request or obligation
6. (transitive)
to perform, give, or communicate voluntarily
to volunteer help
to volunteer a speech
7. (intransitive)
to enlist voluntarily for military service

Collins English Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers

Volunteer

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noun
1. 
a person who chooses freely to do or offer to do something
2. 
a person who chooses freely to enter naval or military service, without being compelled to do so by law
see also conscript, draftee
3.  Botany
a volunteer plant
4.  Law
a. 
a person who chooses freely to enter into any transaction with no promise of compensation
b. 
a person to whom property is transferred without valuable consideration
adjective
5. 
composed of volunteers, as an army
6. 
serving as a volunteer, usually without compensation
7. 
of a volunteer or volunteers
8.  Botany
growing from seed that has fallen naturally to the ground, not planted by a person
verb transitive
9. 
to freely choose to offer or give without being asked or obliged
verb intransitive
10. 
to freely choose to enter or offer to enter into any service; enlist

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Volunteer

see synonyms of volunteer
n.
1. A person who performs or offers to perform a service voluntarily: an information booth staffed by volunteers; hospital volunteers.
2. A person who chooses to enter a branch of the military without being drafted or forced to do so by law.
3. Law A person who works without pay or assumes an obligation to which he or she is not a party or otherwise interested.
4. Botany A cultivated plant growing from self-sown or accidentally dropped seed.
adj.
1. Being, consisting of, or done by volunteers: volunteer firefighters; volunteer tutoring.
2. Botany Growing from self-sown or accidentally dropped seed. Used of a cultivated plant or crop.
v. vol·un·teered, vol·un·teer·ing, vol·un·teers
v.tr.
1. To give or offer to give voluntarily: volunteered their services; volunteer to give blood.
2. Informal To compel (someone) to do something: We were volunteered to do the dishes.
v.intr.
1. To perform or offer to perform a service of one's own free will.
2. To choose to enter military service of one's own free will.
3. To do charitable or helpful work without pay: Many retirees volunteer in community service and day care centers.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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