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nouna person who performs voluntary work
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"She volunteered to drive the old lady home"verbagree freely
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"a volunteer fire department"adjectivewithout payment
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noun(military) a person who freely enlists for service
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nouna native or resident of Tennessee
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verbdo volunteer worktype of:
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"He volunteered the information"verbtell voluntarilytype of:
Definition that contains volunteer
- reserve the trait of being uncommunicative; not volunteering anything more than necessary
- volunteer do volunteer work
- reticence the trait of being uncommunicative; not volunteering anything more than necessary
- home guard a volunteer unit formed to defend the homeland while the regular army is fighting elsewhere
- yeomanry a British volunteer cavalry force organized in 1761 for home defense later incorporated into the Territorial Army
- pledge taker a volunteer who records (usually by telephone) contributions pledged in a fund drive
- candy striper a volunteer worker in a hospital
- rough rider a member of the volunteer cavalry regiment led by Theodore Roosevelt in the Spanish-American War (1898)
- taciturnity the trait of being uncommunicative; not volunteering anything more than necessary
- foreign legion a military unit composed of foreign volunteers who serve the state