VOLUNTEER

unpaid, volunteer

(adjective) without payment; “the soup kitchen was run primarily by unpaid helpers”; “a volunteer fire department”

Tennessean, Volunteer

(noun) a native or resident of Tennessee

volunteer, unpaid worker

(noun) a person who performs voluntary work

volunteer, military volunteer, voluntary

(noun) (military) a person who freely enlists for service

volunteer

(verb) tell voluntarily; “He volunteered the information”

volunteer

(verb) do volunteer work

volunteer, offer

(verb) 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”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology

Noun

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.

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

(botany, agriculture) A plant that grows spontaneously, without being cultivated on purpose; see volunteer plant in Wikipedia.

A native or resident of the American state of Tennessee.

Verb

volunteer (third-person singular simple present volunteers, present participle volunteering, simple past and past participle volunteered)

(intransitive) To enlist oneself as a volunteer.

(ambitransitive) To do or offer to do something voluntarily.

(transitive) To offer, usually unprompted.

(intransitive, botany) To grow without human sowing or intentional cultivation.

(transitive, informal) To offer the services of (someone else) to do something.

Source: Wiktionary

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Vol`un*teer", n. Etym: [F. volontaire. See Voluntary, a.]

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

2. (Mil.)

Definition: 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.

3. (Law)

Definition: 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. Burrill.

Vol`un*teer", a.

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

Vol`un*teer", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Volunteered; p. pr. & vb. n. Volunteering.]

Definition: To offer or bestow voluntarily, or without solicitation or compulsion; as, to volunteer one's services.

Vol`un*teer", v. i.

Definition: To enter into, or offer for, any service of one's own free will, without solicitation or compulsion; as, he volunteered in that undertaking.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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