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Definition of Volunteer

1. Adjective. Without payment. "A volunteer fire department"

2. Verb. Tell voluntarily. "He volunteered the information"

3. Noun. (military) a person who freely enlists for service.

4. Verb. Agree freely. "They volunteer to move "; "I offered to help with the dishes but the hostess would not hear of it"

5. Noun. A person who performs voluntary work.

6. Verb. Do volunteer work.

7. Noun. A native or resident of Tennessee.

Definition of Volunteer

1. n. One who enters into, or offers for, any service of his own free will.

2. a. Of or pertaining to a volunteer or volunteers; consisting of volunteers; voluntary; as, volunteer companies; volunteer advice.

3. v. t. To offer or bestow voluntarily, or without solicitation or compulsion; as, to volunteer one's services.

4. 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.

5. n. One who enters into, or offers for, any service of his own free will.

6. a. Of or pertaining to a volunteer or volunteers; consisting of volunteers; voluntary; as, volunteer companies; volunteer advice.

7. v. t. To offer or bestow voluntarily, or without solicitation or compulsion; as, to volunteer one's services.

8. 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.

Definition of Volunteer

1. Noun. One who enters into, or offers for, any service of his/her own free will, especially when done without pay. ¹

2. Noun. (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. ¹

3. Noun. (legal) A person who acts out of his own will without a legal obligation, such as a donor. ¹

4. Noun. (botany) A plant that grows in disturbed soil. ¹

5. Noun. A native or resident of the American state of Tennessee. ¹

6. Verb. (intransitive) To enlist oneself as a volunteer. ¹

7. Verb. (transitive) To do or offer to do something voluntarily. ¹

8. Verb. (intransitive botany) To grow without human sowing or intentional cultivation. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Volunteer

1. [v -ED, -ING, -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Volunteer

voluntary guarding voluntary health agencies voluntary hospital voluntary muscle voluntary muscles voluntary mutism voluntary nystagmus voluntary waste voluntary work voluntary workers

voluntaryism voluntaryisms voluntaryist voluntaryists voluntas ordinata volunteer (current term) volunteer(a) volunteered volunteering volunteerism

volunteerisms volunteers voluntell voluntold voluntourism voluntourist voluntourists volupere voluperes volupties

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