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volunteered Definition


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volunteer
verb volunteered, volunteering
    tr & intr
    1. To offer one's help or services freely, without being persuaded or forced.
      Thesaurus: come forward, sign up, enlist, offer oneself.
      Form: volunteer for something (often)
    intr
    2. To go into military service by choice, without being conscripted.
    3. To give (information, etc) unasked.
    4. colloq
      To assign someone to perform a task or give help without first asking them.
      Example: I'm volunteering you for playground duty
noun
    1. Some-one who volunteers.
    2. Someone carrying out voluntary work.
    3. A member of a non-professional army of voluntary soldiers set up during wartime.
Etymology: 17c: from French voluntaire, from Latin voluntarius voluntary.



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