Definitions of Volunteer [ˌvɒl ənˈtɪər]

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Definition of 'Volunteer'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (n.) volunteer
a person who voluntarily offers himself or herself for a service or undertaking.

2.  volunteer
a person who performs a service willingly and without pay.

3.  volunteer
a person who enters military service voluntarily rather than through conscription.

4.  volunteer
a person who acts without legal obligation to do so, esp. such a person who pays the debt of another.

5.  volunteer
a plant that has sprung up spontaneously from seed rather than having been planted or cultivated.

6. (adj.) volunteer
of, pertaining to, or serving as a volunteer.

7.  volunteer
consisting of or performed by volunteers:
a volunteer army.

8. (v.i.) volunteer
to offer oneself for some service or undertaking.

9.  volunteer
to enter service or enlist as a volunteer.

10. (v.t.) volunteer
to offer (oneself or one's services) for some undertaking or purpose.

11.  volunteer
to give, bestow, or perform voluntarily.

12.  volunteer
to say, tell, or communicate voluntarily:
to volunteer an explanation.

Etymology: (1590–1600; < F volontaire < L voluntāriusvoluntary)

Definition of 'Volunteer'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (noun) volunteer, military volunteer, voluntary
(military) a person who freely enlists for service

2. (noun) volunteer, unpaid worker
a person who performs voluntary work

3. (adj) Tennessean, Volunteer
a native or resident of Tennessee

4. (verb) unpaid, volunteer(a)
without payment
"the soup kitchen was run primarily by unpaid helpers"; "a volunteer fire department"

5. (verb) volunteer
tell voluntarily
"He volunteered the information"

6. (verb) volunteer, offer
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"

7. (verb) volunteer
do volunteer work

Definition of 'Volunteer'

Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary

1. (noun) volunteer
sb who offers to do sth
I need three volunteers to help me.

2. volunteer
sb who works without pay in order to help
a volunteer at the local library

3. (verb) volunteer
to offer to do sth
Nobody volunteered to help at the church fair.

4. volunteer
to join the armed forces by choice
He volunteered for the army.

Definition of 'Volunteer'

Webster Dictionary

1. (adj) Volunteer
one who enters into, or offers for, any service of his own free will

2. (adj) Volunteer
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. (adj) Volunteer
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

4. (adj) Volunteer
of or pertaining to a volunteer or volunteers; consisting of volunteers; voluntary; as, volunteer companies; volunteer advice

5. (verb) Volunteer
to offer or bestow voluntarily, or without solicitation or compulsion; as, to volunteer one's services

6. (verb) Volunteer
to enter into, or offer for, any service of one's own free will, without solicitation or compulsion; as, he volunteered in that undertaking

Translation of 'Volunteer'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: to offer oneself for a particular task, of one's own free will (often without being paid for such work) He volunteered to act as messenger; She volunteered for the dangerous job.
Afrikaans: vrywilliger	Arabic: مُتَطَوِّع	Bulgarian: отзовавам се
Brazilian: voluntariar(-se)	Czech: dobrovolně se (při)hlásit	German: sich freiwillig anbieten
Danish: melde sig frivilligt	Greek: προσφέρομαι εθελοντικά	Spanish: ofrecerse voluntario
Estonian: (end) vabatahtlikuna esit	Farsi: داوطلب شدن	Finnish: ilmoittautua vapaaehtoise
French: se porter volontaire	Hebrew: לְהִתנַדֵב	Hindi: स्वे्छा से काम करना
Croatian: dragovoljac	Hungarian: önként jelentkezik	Indonesian: menawarkan diri
Icelandic: bjóðast til að gera e-ð,	Italian: (offrirsi come volontario	Japanese: 志願する
Korean: 자진하여 하다	Lithuanian: pasisiūlyti, pasiprašyti	Latvian: brīvprātīgi pieteikties/u
Malay: bersukarela	Dutch: zich vrijwillig aanbieden	Norwegian: melde seg frivillig, tilb
Polish: zaofiarować się, zgłaszać	Persian: داوطلب شدن	Pashto: په خپله خوښه وركول, په خپ
Portuguese: voluntário	Romanian: a se oferi de bună voie	Russian: вызываться добровольно
Slovak: dobrovoľne urobiť, al. po	Slovenian: prostovoljno se javiti	Serbian: prijaviti se dobrovoljno
Swedish: frivilligt erbjuda (åta)	Thai: สมัครใจทำ (บางสิ่ง)	Turkish: gönüllü olmak
Taiwanese: 自願(做某事)	Ukrainian: визватися	Urdu: رضاکار
Vietnamese: tình nguyện	Chinese: 自愿（做某事）
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