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Volunteer   /vˌɑləntˈɪr/   Listen
Volunteer

noun
1.
(military) a person who freely enlists for service.  Synonyms: military volunteer, voluntary.
2.
A person who performs voluntary work.  Synonym: unpaid worker.
3.
A native or resident of Tennessee.  Synonym: Tennessean.
verb
(past & past part. volunteered; pres. part. volunteering)
1.
Tell voluntarily.
2.
Agree freely.  Synonym: offer.  "I offered to help with the dishes but the hostess would not hear of it"
3.
Do volunteer work.
adjective
1.
Without payment.  Synonym: unpaid.  "A volunteer fire department"



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"Volunteer" Quotes from Famous Books



... the first volunteer, and nearly a dozen more white men immediately sprang forward. Not a moment was to ...
— The Missing Ship - The Log of the "Ouzel" Galley • W. H. G. Kingston

... gesture, and addressed his wife. "When Detective Ferguson questioned me as to your reason for being in the library, Margaret, I stated you had gone down to get a book left lying on the Venetian casket," he said. "I waited for you to volunteer an explanation of your presence there, but you ...
— The Red Seal • Natalie Sumner Lincoln

... found Lige Sparks, Obadiah Button and Micah Dunk installed as volunteer nurses. The man had a broken arm, three broken ribs, and had suffered internal injuries that demanded ...
— Troop One of the Labrador • Dillon Wallace

... the attempt failed. "I believe I told you," he wrote to one of his friends, "that Vernon's birthday passed quietly, but it was not designed to be pacific; for at twelve at night, eight gentlemen dressed like sailors, and masked, went round Covent Garden with a drum beating for a volunteer mob; but it did not take; and they retired to a great supper that was prepared for them at the Bedford Head, and ordered by Whitehead, the author of 'Manners.'" At a later date it was the meeting-place of a club to which ...
— Inns and Taverns of Old London • Henry C. Shelley

... contest! In two respects my adversary plainly has the advantage of me. First, we have not the same interests at stake; it is by no means the same thing for me to forfeit your esteem, and for AEschines, an unprovoked volunteer, to fail in his impeachment. My other disadvantage is, the natural proneness of men to lend a pleased attention to invective and accusation, but to give little heed to him whose theme is his own vindication. To my adversary, therefore, falls the part which ministers to your gratification, ...
— Museum of Antiquity - A Description of Ancient Life • L. W. Yaggy


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