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volunteer English

Meaning volunteer meaning

What does volunteer mean?
Definitions in simple English

volunteer Noun

— A volunteer is someone who does work because they want to, without being paid. We have one paid manager and five volunteers working on this project.

volunteer Verb

— To do something voluntarily. I volunteered to do the dishes after dinner to help my mom clean up. Julie volunteered an explanation without even being asked.

volunteer

— verb tell voluntarily He volunteered the information — noun (military) a person who freely enlists for service — verb do volunteer work — verb (= offer) agree freely She volunteered to drive the old lady home I offered to help with the dishes but the hostess would not hear of it — noun a person who performs voluntary work — adjective (= unpaid) without payment the soup kitchen was run primarily by unpaid helpers a volunteer fire department

Volunteer

— noun (= Tennessean) a native or resident of Tennessee

Synonyms volunteer synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as volunteer?

volunteer English » English

voluntary offer willing unpaid worker unpaid step forward enlist sympathizer military volunteer interested person be willing to appear zealous patriot volunteering volunteer troop unforced undertake a challenge underquote uncoerced treat tender sympathiser suggest spontaneous ship over serve up self-sacrificing person render re-enlist purvey patriotic offer oneself for like volunteer indicate helpmate facultative extend ex gratia efficient develop come forward by-bid bid arise approach apply afford

Volunteer English » English

Tennessean

Topics volunteer topics

What do people use volunteer to talk about?
Language and thought Want Request

Willing
Language and thought Want

Offer
Social behavior Conflict War Military organization

Soldier

Conjugation volunteer conjugation

How do you conjugate volunteer?

volunteer · verb

Examples volunteer examples

How do I use volunteer in a sentence?

Simple sentences

Tom wants to be a volunteer so that he can help others.
Others engage in volunteer work.
The volunteer group provides war victims with food and medicine.
Mrs. Smith is actively engaged in volunteer work.
Few elephants would volunteer to move to Europe.
Since I have no children, I have more time to spend doing volunteer work than parents do.
I've decided to join the volunteer fire department.
Tom certainly isn't going to volunteer.
Tom began working as a volunteer at the homeless shelter while he was still in high school.
I'd like to volunteer my services.
I need a volunteer.
We need a volunteer.
No one wanted to volunteer.
Six men came forward to volunteer for the work.
I have a friend who works as a volunteer.
She is working as a volunteer interpreter at the international conference.
The magician asked for a volunteer from the audience.
As a punishment, the disgraced Greenpeace volunteer had to scrub oil from an otter's fur with his own toothbrush.
Have you ever done any volunteer work?
Tom didn't volunteer to be a guinea pig.
Tom's a volunteer.
We're looking for a volunteer.
How do you know I didn't volunteer?

Movie subtitles

Why else would he volunteer to be on duty on the 25th?
May I volunteer to look for Professor Manfeldt and, at the same time, water?
Captain Deeds, fire volunteer, Mandrake Falls.
Is there anyone who would like to volunteer to construe?
I'd like to volunteer for the job.
Your volunteer, captain.
Here's your other volunteer.
The Society for the Propagation of the Faith. has asked me to supply a volunteer missionary. for China.
A volunteer?
Just another volunteer.
You, you will volunteer.
Who will be the first volunteer?
With the colonel's permission, I volunteer.
We have to volunteer for the 101st Airborne.
I would like to volunteer in such a regiment.
Douglas, my boy, I'm proud of you for being the first to volunteer.
We overwhelm the enemy. - I need a volunteer.
I want some deputies. some volunteer deputies, who've gotta be able to shoot straight the first time. or else.
No, that's in case you're forced down in Chinese territory, so they'll know you're an American volunteer.
I don't have to tell you what our entrance into the war means to the volunteer group in China.
A job for a volunteer, of course. Of course.
They were among the first to volunteer.
Will speak of the necessary of the immediate surrender of the assassin. Volunteer speakers must be ready at 4:30 sharp.
Are these all the volunteer speakers you have? Commandant, barracks 2 and 3 failed to produce anyone who volunteered.
After I finished helping to give out breakfast in the morning, I'm currently a volunteer at a bank. I'm doing very well now, so don't worry.
I need a volunteer. - Me. What for?
Ain't gonna be no more volunteer marshals around this camp!
It's the volunteer fireman that tried to drop the bucket on us.
Would some pretty lady volunteer?
This man, together with Sheriff Kretzer and a crew of volunteer rescue workers, is tirelessly fighting this battle against stubborn rock and fleeting time with a human life at stake.
And more volunteer workers from all over the state.
I thought you'd volunteer that information if you want to tell me.
He was one of the first to volunteer. I hated him for that.
He's saying just don't volunteer!
As long as I'm hooked, I might as well volunteer.
This is your friendliest enemy reminding you to take it easy and never volunteer for anything.
Would anyone in the audience care to volunteer?

News and current affairs

To empower global society to act, Ban has launched a bold new global initiative, for which I am grateful to volunteer.
The volunteer who carries out the task of torture is less liable than the high-ranking civil servant who justified and nurtured it.
The people subject to this law are members of parliament, of government, judges and other lawyers who volunteer to be checked.
While one third of the Commission members favored a volunteer army, the majority supported conscription, albeit with a smaller number of call-ups than today.
There is no volunteer like Germany or the US Treasury willing to dip into its deep pockets.
A country that emerged so recently from one period of dictatorship is unlikely to volunteer for another at the hands of a man who sought to falsify the presidential election of 2004.
By refusing to leave the streets and squares of Kyiv, Ukraine's mass volunteer army of democrats forced our country's gray old men of the past to retreat into the past.
NEW YORK - Until Thomas Eric Duncan brought Ebola into the United States, the disease was largely dismissed as an exotic pestilence of concern mainly to impoverished West Africa, and those who dared to volunteer there.
Donors would be carefully screened for physical and psychological problems, as is currently done for all volunteer living kidney donors.
Diamond companies volunteer not to buy from conflict areas in an attempt to prevent diamonds from funding warlords.
The first step is for some country or countries to volunteer the naval force needed to preserve Somalia's humanitarian lifeline.
Neither side will volunteer to bear the costs of recalibrating the relationship.
But it is these people - motorists, volunteer ecologists, and charitable-campaign organizers - rather than Russia's politicians who represent the country's best hope for modernization.
As a volunteer for the network, I was in touch with Chen and followed events closely.

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