volunteer
志愿者,义工,志愿,自愿者
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Definitions
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- : a person who voluntarily offers himself or herself for a service or undertaking.
- : a person who performs a service willingly and without pay.
- : 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.
- : 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.
- : Agriculture.Also volunteer plant . a plant that springs up spontaneously, without being seeded, planted, or cultivated by a person: We didn't plant any watermelons this year, but look at all the volunteers from last year's crop.
- : Volunteer. a native or inhabitant of Tennessee.
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- : of, relating to, or being a volunteer or volunteers: a volunteer fireman.
- : Agriculture. growing without being seeded, planted, or cultivated by a person; springing up spontaneously: volunteer tomatoes.
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- : to offer oneself for some service or undertaking.
- : to enter service or enlist as a volunteer.
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- : to offer for some undertaking or purpose.
- : to give, bestow, or perform voluntarily: to volunteer a song.
- : to say, tell, or communicate voluntarily: to volunteer an explanation.
- : to promise the services of without having asked if it is something they actually can or want to do: He volunteered me to sand and paint the bottom of the boat, and I don’t have the slightest interest in sanding, painting, or boating.
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Examples
It declined to disclose details about the volunteer’s illness.
Asked if he would have asked Mallott to resign if the lieutenant governor had not volunteered to do so, Walker said he doesn’t know.
Shortly after arriving in the United States, he volunteered to join the Army and went back and fought in Europe.
All that is known officially is that one of the study volunteers went to the hospital after having neurological problems.
Depending on infection rates for the disease, a phase three vaccine trial may involve thousands to tens of thousands of volunteers.
He then went back to his volunteer corps, which had formed when they did not yet have an ambulance.
There is a distinct smell of apples, which are handed out by volunteer workers.
Women do volunteer and women are victims—you have to think in nuanced kind of way.
You can read more about the civilian-volunteer position here.
However, the Los Angeles Police Memorial Foundation seems to be behind the idea of making their famous supporter a volunteer cop.
Yet there never was lacking a volunteer, either man or woman, to go to that well and obtain the precious water.
There were no more sleepless nights, fearing an attack from the dreaded rebel or the volunteer.
His father, a man of means, was prominent as one of the pioneers in organizing the volunteer army of Great Britain.
On reaching the front the volunteer captain soon found scope for his pencil.
Captain Brasyer brought 130 loyal Sikhs to the column: there were six small guns, and eighteen volunteer cavalry.