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volunteer

Definition

  • noun: someone who does something without being forced to do it
  • noun: a person who 'voluntarily' undertakes or expresses a willingness to undertake a service
  • verb: to offer to do something without being forced to or without getting paid to do it
  • verb: to offer oneself as a volunteer
  • synonyms: voluntary, offer

Examples

  • I just found out that Mom 'volunteered' me to babysit. [=that Mom said I would babysit without asking me if I wanted to]

  • He would not 'volunteer' any information about her whereabouts.

  • I 'volunteered' to do the job. = I 'volunteered' for the job.

Movie quotes

  • (..) Yes. Today, a paradise in the Swiss Alps, tomorrow, a wasteland. Compared to Clouseau, Attila the Hun was a Red Cross volunteer. - Careful. - Huh? I put the real one in the bottom drawer. See? Follow that car. (..)
    1975 The Return of the Pink Panther