Definition:
- (a.) One who enters into, or offers for, any service of his own free will.
- (a.) 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.
- (a.) 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.) Of or pertaining to a volunteer or volunteers; consisting of volunteers; voluntary; as, volunteer companies; volunteer advice.
- (v. t.) To offer or bestow voluntarily, or without solicitation or compulsion; as, to volunteer one's services.
- (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.
Compare volunteer with other words:
compulsory vs. volunteer
candidate vs. volunteer
coerce vs. volunteer
philanthropy vs. volunteer
donate vs. volunteer
volunteer vs. volunteering
volunteer vs. yeomanry
participate vs. volunteer
participant vs. volunteer
voluntary vs. volunteer
volitional vs. volunteer
volition vs. volunteer
plant vs. volunteer
conscript vs. volunteer
service vs. volunteer
bounty vs. volunteer
involuntary vs. volunteer