Definitions for volunteer

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volunteer vol·un·teer

Spelling: [vol-uh n-teer]

IPA: /ˌvɒl ənˈtɪər/

Volunteer is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 324 anagrams from letters in volunteer (eelnortuv).

Definitions for volunteer

noun

1. a person who voluntarily offers himself or herself for a service or undertaking.
2. a person who performs a service willingly and without pay.
3. Military. a person who enters the service voluntarily rather than through conscription or draft, especially for special or temporary service rather than as a member of the regular or permanent army.
4. Law. a person whose actions are not founded on any legal obligation so to act. a person who intrudes into a matter that does not concern him or her, as a person who pays the debt of another where he or she is neither legally nor morally bound to do so and has no interest to protect in making the payment.
5. Agriculture. a volunteer plant.
6. (initial capital letter) a native or inhabitant of Tennessee (used as a nickname).

adjective

1. of, relating to, or being a volunteer or volunteers:
2. Agriculture. growing without being seeded, planted, or cultivated by a person; springing up spontaneously.

verb (used with object)

1. to offer (oneself or one's services) for some undertaking or purpose.
2. to give, bestow, or perform voluntarily:
3. to say, tell, or communicate voluntarily:

verb (used without object)

1. to offer oneself for some service or undertaking.
2. to enter service or enlist as a volunteer.

Origin of volunteer

1590-1600; French volontaire Latin voluntārius voluntary, with -eer for French -aire

Examples for volunteer

In the final stretch of the campaign, Gotauco, the Healey volunteer, recorded a song she titled "Integrity in A-Minor."

"Never knew him to volunteer to do a thing before," declared Max.

There's Charley going out as a volunteer to India, for what or why no one can say.

Women do volunteer and women are victims—you have to think in nuanced kind of way.

There is a distinct smell of apples, which are handed out by volunteer workers.

In 1792, he enlisted as a volunteer; and in a year he was general of brigade.

However, the Los Angeles Police Memorial Foundation seems to be behind the idea of making their famous supporter a volunteer cop.

Hers is the only army into which no man can be forced, and in which every man is a volunteer.

Is my life any more precious than yours, or that of some volunteer Army pilot?

He then went back to his volunteer corps, which had formed when they did not yet have an ambulance.