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Meaning of 'volunteer'
Meaning of 'volunteer' (Webster Dictionary)
1. Volunteer 
[ a.]
- One who enters into, or offers for, any service of his
own free will. [ a.]- 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.
- 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.
- Of or pertaining to a volunteer or volunteers; consisting of volunteers; voluntary; as, volunteer companies; volunteer advice.
2. Volunteer [ v. i.]
- To enter into, or offer for, any service of one's own
free will, without solicitation or compulsion; as, he volunteered in
that undertaking. [ v. i.]3. Volunteer [ v. t.]
- To offer or bestow voluntarily, or without
solicitation or compulsion; as, to volunteer one's services. [ v. t.]Meaning of 'volunteer' (Princeton's WordNet)
1. volunteer [ v]
[ v]Meaning (1):
- tell voluntarily
- tell voluntarily
Example in sentence:
- He volunteered the information
Meaning (2):
- agree freely
- agree freely
Example in sentence:
- I offered to help with the dishes but the hostess would not hear of it;
- She volunteered to drive the old lady home
2. volunteer [ s]
[ s]Meaning (3):
- without payment
- without payment
Example in sentence:
- a volunteer fire department;
- the soup kitchen was run primarily by unpaid helpers
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