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noun

Volunteer n.

One who enters into, or offers for, any service of his own free will.

(Mil.) 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.

(Law) 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 plant, especially a flowering plant in a garden, that appears spontaneously without having been intentionally planted.

verb

Volunteer v. t. (past & past part. volunteered; pres. part. volunteering) To offer or bestow voluntarily, or without solicitation or compulsion; as, to volunteer one's services.

Volunteer 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.

adjective

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

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Etymology of 'Volunteer'

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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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