Volunteer
[,vɒlən'tɪə] or [,vɑlən'tɪr]
Definition
(noun.) a person who performs voluntary work.
(noun.) (military) a person who freely enlists for service.
(verb.) tell voluntarily; 'He volunteered the information'.
(verb.) do volunteer work.
(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'.
Inputed by Jesse--From WordNet
Definition
(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.) 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.
(a.) Of or pertaining to a volunteer or volunteers; consisting of volunteers; voluntary; as, volunteer companies; volunteer advice.
(v. t.) To offer or bestow voluntarily, or without solicitation or compulsion; as, to volunteer one's services.
(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.
Typist: Weldon
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. Offer, proffer, tender, present.
Edited by Bonita
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Offer, proffer, tend, originate
ANT:Withhold, refuse, suppress
Checked by Elaine
Definition
n. one who enters any service esp. military voluntarily or of his own free choice: a soldier belonging to any body other than the regular army.—adj. entering into service voluntarily.—v.t. to offer voluntarily.—v.i. to enter into any service of one's own free-will or without being asked.
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Examples
- Getting another boy with difficulty to volunteer, he launched out on his errand in the pitch-black night. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Margaret's heart ached to see him; yet, as he did not speak, she did not like to volunteer any attempt at comfort. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- However, Mr. Tupman did not volunteer any such accommodation, and the friends walked on, conversing merrily. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Deeming the return dangerous he did not like to order any one to carry it, so he called for a volunteer. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- After the breaking out of the war there was a regiment of volunteer soldiers quartered at Fort Gratiot, the reservation extending to the boundary line of our house. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- No doubt he attributed it for the time to the presumption of a graduate of West Point over a volunteer pure and simple. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- This offer to corrupt us, sir, is with me your credential, and convinces me that you are not a private volunteer in your application. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- It was seen that the volunteers of the Mexican war largely composed the pioneers to settle up the Pacific coast country. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- There was no call made when there were not more volunteers than were asked for. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- The call was for 75,000 volunteers for ninety days' service. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- All but two of the steamers were commanded by volunteers from the army, and all but one so manned. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Volunteers were called for from the army, men who had had experience in any capacity in navigating the western rivers. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Upton, 121st New York Volunteers; Colonel William McCandless, 2d Pennsylvania Reserves, to be Brigadier-Generals. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- The volunteers who followed were of better material, but without drill or discipline at the start. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- How could he refuse to answer when he had volunteered what drew forth the question? George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- The men had no clothing but what they had volunteered in, and much of this was so worn that it would hardly stay on. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- When they volunteered the government had only called for ninety days' enlistments. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Mr. Skimpole had previously volunteered to go home with us and had withdrawn to dress himself for the purpose. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Thuvia volunteered to remain on watch while the balance of the party slept for an hour. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- The small number of three volunteered to go; the rest preferred staying behind. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- You guess correctly; he has volunteered already. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- They felt that this change of period released them from the obligation of re-volunteering. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
Edited by Darrell