Volunteer

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A person who performs or offers to perform a service voluntarily: an information booth staffed by volunteers; hospital volunteers.
  • n. Law A person who renders aid, performs a service, or assumes an obligation voluntarily.
  • n. Law A person who holds property under a deed made without consideration.
  • n. Botany A cultivated plant growing from self-sown or accidentally dropped seed.
  • adj. Being, consisting of, or done by volunteers: volunteer firefighters; volunteer tutoring.
  • adj. Botany Growing from self-sown or accidentally dropped seed. Used of a cultivated plant or crop.
  • v. To give or offer to give voluntarily: volunteered their services; volunteer to give blood.
  • verb-intransitive. To perform or offer to perform a service of one's own free will.
  • verb-intransitive. To do charitable or helpful work without pay: Many retirees volunteer in community service and day care centers.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. One who enters into, or offers for, any service of his/her own free will, especially when done without pay.
  • n. 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.
  • n. A person who acts out of his own will without a legal obligation, such as a donor.
  • n. A plant that grows in disturbed soil.
  • n. A native or resident of the American state of Tennessee.
  • v. To enlist oneself as a volunteer.
  • v. To do or offer to do something voluntarily.
  • v. To grow without human sowing or intentional cultivation.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. One who enters into, or offers for, any service of his own free will.
  • n. 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.
  • n. 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.
  • adj. Of or pertaining to a volunteer or volunteers; consisting of volunteers; voluntary
  • v. To offer or bestow voluntarily, or without solicitation or compulsion.
  • verb-intransitive. To enter into, or offer for, any service of one's own free will, without solicitation or compulsion.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. In horticulture, a plant that comes up of itself from naturally scattered seed, in distinction from one that comes from sowing by the horticulturist.
  • n. A person who enters into any service of his own free will.
  • n. A person who enters military service of his own free will, and not by constraint or compulsion; one who offers to serve, and generally receives some consideration or privileges on that account; in the United States, especially during the civil war, a soldier of a body other than the regular army, but practically governed by the same laws when in service.
  • n. In law, one who claims the benefit of a contract or conveyance although no consideration proceeded from him nor from any one in whose place he stands.
  • n. A tree which grows spontaneously: as, that pear-tree in my garden is a volunteer.
  • Entering into military service by free will and choice: as, a volunteer soldier.
  • Composed of volunteers: as, a volunteer corps.
  • To offer, contribute, or bestow voluntarily, or without constraint or compulsion.
  • To enter into any service of one's free will, without constraint or compulsion: as, to volunteer for a campaign
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a person who performs voluntary work
  • adj. without payment
  • v. tell voluntarily
  • n. (military) a person who freely enlists for service
  • v. agree freely
  • v. do volunteer work
  • n. a native or resident of Tennessee
  • Equivalent
    voluntary   
    Verb Form
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    inform    military man    military personnel    serviceman    man    act    move    work    American   
    Cross Reference
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    Words with the same meaning
    voluntary    offer   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Bombardier    Chevalier    Clear    Deere    Fear    Greer    Imagineer    Lanier    Lear    Meir   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    militia    infantry    civilian    recruit    veteran    mercenary    marine    troop    worker    police