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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

... them were born "them Field boys," Charles K. (April 24th, 1803) and Roswell M. (February 22d, 1807), destined to be thorns in their father's flesh throughout their school-days, his opponents in every justice's court where they could volunteer to match their wits against his, and, in the person of Roswell Martin, to be the distraction and despair of the courts of Windsor County and Vermont, until a decision of the Supreme Court so outraged that son's sense of the sacredness of the marriage vow, that he ...

— Eugene Field, A Study In Heredity And Contradictions - Vol. I • Slason Thompson

... would know there were two of us. Any one who saw me twice, might well think he had seen us both. If my brother's body were found in the valley stream, it was not likely to be recognized, or to be indeed recognizable. The only one who could tell what happened at the top of the fall, would hardly volunteer information. But, while I knew myself my brother's murderer, I thought no more of these sheltering facts than I did of danger. I made it no secret that my brother had gone over the fall. I went to the foot of ...

— The Flight of the Shadow • George MacDonald

... they say 'No', then we shall have a just ground of complaint, and we'll use it as a text at the Annual Meeting to demand a new arrangement of the Guilds. Four of us ought to make up the deputation. I'm willing to go for one, and I think I can promise for Hetty Hancock and Lennie Chapman. Who'll volunteer ...

— The Leader of the Lower School - A Tale of School Life • Angela Brazil

... rounded up," he instructed the volunteer arrangement committee, "light up the candles on the tree and set 'em to playin' 'Pussy Wants a Corner' and 'King William.' When they get good and at it, why—old Santa'll slide in the door. I reckon there'll be plenty of gifts ...

— Heart of the West • O. Henry

... two children by wedlock,—both sons; at his death, my father, the younger, bade adieu to the old hall and his only brother, prayed to the grim portraits of his ancestors to inspire him, and set out—to join as a volunteer the armies of that Louis, afterwards surnamed le grand. Of him I shall say but little; the life of a soldier has only two events worth recording,—his first campaign and his last. My uncle did as his ancestors had done before ...

— Devereux, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton

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