volunteer
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: agriculture
biology
botany
business
government
law
lifestyle
military
natural-sciences
politics
war
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French voluntaire, from Latin voluntārius (“willing, voluntary”); or from voluntary + -eer.
Base: voluntary
Affixes: -eer
Inflected forms:
form: volunteers
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: volunteers
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: volunteering
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: volunteered
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: volunteered
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: One who enters into, or offers themselves for, any service of their own free will, especially when done without pay.
pos: noun
examples: The volunteers at the nature reserve meet up ever other Sunday to help its upkeep.
The largest age group for volunteers was 35-44, the CNCS survey said, and volunteers were most likely to be parents with children under 18. The typical volunteer may live in Utah, which ranked first in the percentage of people who said they volunteered among all 50 states and Washington, DC.
gloss: One who enters into military service voluntarily (but who, when in service, is subject to discipline and regulations like other soldiers), as opposed to a conscript.
pos: noun
gloss: A voluntary member of the organized militia of a country, as distinguished from a regular or member of the standing army.
pos: noun
examples: That summer and fall the Army organized twenty-five regiments of volunteers, including two black regiments, which would have all-black captains and lieutenants. All officers were to be selected from regulars and volunteers who had distinguished themselves[…]
gloss: A person who acts out of their own will without a legal obligation, such as a donor.
pos: noun
gloss: A plant that grows spontaneously, without being cultivated on purpose; see volunteer plant in Wikipedia.
pos: noun
gloss: A native or resident of the American state of Tennessee.
pos: noun
gloss: To enlist oneself as a volunteer.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To do or offer to do something voluntarily.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
examples: to volunteer for doing the dishes
Miranda: No good. Both routes are blocked. See these doors? The only way past is to get someone to open them from the other side.
Shepard: It's not a fortress; there's got to be something. Here, maybe we can send someone in through this ventilation shaft.
Jacob: Practically a suicide mission. I volunteer.
Miranda: I appreciate the thought, Jacob, but you couldn't shut down the security systems in time. We need to send a tech expert.
The typical volunteer may live in Utah, which ranked first in the percentage of people who said they volunteered among all 50 states and Washington, DC. […] The median amount of time per year spent volunteering was 52 hours.
gloss: To offer, usually unprompted.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to volunteer an explanation
gloss: To offer the services of (someone else) to do something.
pos: verb
tags: informal
transitive
examples: My sister volunteered me to do the dishes.
gloss: To grow without human sowing or intentional cultivation.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
Related words: voluntarism
voluntarist
Derived words: army volunteer
volunteerism
volunteerly
volunteership
volunteer snooker
I volunteer as tribute
volunteering
voluntell
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