volunteer
1. a person who does something, especially helping other people, willingly and…
Meaning of
volunteer
in English
volunteer
noun
uk
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B2
person
who does something,
especially
helping
other
people
,
willingly
and without being
forced
or
paid
to do it:
The Health
clinic
is relying on volunteers to
run
the
office
and
answer
the
phones
.
Since it would be a
highly
dangerous
mission
, the
Lieutenant
asked
for volunteers.
It’s a volunteer
army
with no
paid
professionals
.
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conscript
verb
mainly
UK
US
As a volunteer on the
childcare
project
, I really
saw
life
.
He
emphasized
that all the
people
taking
part
in the
research
were volunteers.
We’re
saving
money
by using volunteers.
She
placed
her
name
on the
list
of volunteers.
Charities such as
Oxfam
are always
trying
to
recruit
volunteers to
help
in
their
work
.
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volunteer
verb
uk
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C1
offer
to do something that you do not have to do, often without having been
asked
to do it and/or without
expecting
payment
:
During the
emergency
many
staff
volunteered
to
work
through the
weekend
.
He volunteered
for
the
army
(= he
joined
even
though he did not have to)
.
I volunteered myself
for
the
position
of Health and Safety
Representative
.
humorous
My
friends
volunteered me
to
do the
talking
.
If I were you, I wouldn’t volunteer any
details
of what
happened
.
“I
saw
her going out of the
main
entrance
half
an
hour
ago,” he volunteered.
You can
accuse
me of
cowardice
, but I still wouldn’t volunteer to
fight
in a
war
.
I volunteered to do the
washing
up.
Many women volunteered to
work
as
nurses
in the
war
.
Did anybody volunteer to
tidy
up?
They all volunteered to
help
with the
digging
.
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(Definition of
volunteer
Cambridge Advanced Learner’s Dictionary & Thesaurus
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volunteer
| American Dictionary
volunteer
noun
us
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person
who does something,
esp
. for other
people
or for an
organization
,
willingly
and without being
forced
or
paid
to do it:
The
charity
relies on volunteers to
run
the
office
and
answer
the
phones
.
volunteer
verb
us
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esp
. for other
people
or for an
organization
,
willingly
and without being
forced
or
paid
to do it:
During the
emergency
a lot of
people
volunteered to
work
through the
night
.
Three
physicians
volunteered
their
services
.
(Definition of
volunteer
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volunteer
| Business English
volunteer
noun
uk
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They
employ
1,000
people
and 23,000 volunteers.
I will
ask
for volunteers to
help
with the
search
.
volunteer
verb
uk
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If they’re
short
of
helpers
, I could volunteer.
volunteer to do sth
I volunteered to do the
accounting
.
volunteer for sth
He volunteered for early
retirement
.
volunteer sb for/to do sth
He volunteered his
wife
for the
job
.
More
residents
need to
step
forward
and
volunteer
time
and
energy
.
volunteer
adjective
uk
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a volunteer doctor/firefighter/lawyer
The
legal
advice
centres
are
staffed
by volunteer
lawyers
.
Her
volunteer
work
took up most of her
free
time
.
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(Definition of
volunteer
Cambridge Business English Dictionary
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Examples
of
volunteer
Promoting transformative learning enables community volunteering to provide meaningful roles for seniors, and promotes citizenship participation and the social economy in an ageing society.
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The first experiments were those which the volunteers knew they would be subjected to.
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Many assumptions – about the volunteers’ youth, gender, class, religion, ethnicity, politics, and motives, and how these may have changed over time – therefore remain untested.
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Exploring the ways that older people contribute as informal volunteers in the community helps us understand the breadth and diversity of these activities.
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All three books should be read by professionals and volunteers concerned with the elderly.
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Assistance from family members, friends, paid care givers, and volunteers in the care of terminally ill patients.
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To an extraordinary extent, they have used local volunteers, in tandem with public professionals, to deliver social services.
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Although available to all volunteers who have expenses, in practice honorary executives of voluntary agencies are those most likely to receive the payment.
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Ninety-five people volunteered to participate and answered a face-to-face questionnaire in the presence of an interpreter, after written informed consent was obtained.
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However, everything depended on human cases to provide infective material and volunteers to detect it.
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Effects of catecholamine depletion on alertness and mood in rested and sleep deprived normal volunteers.
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The feedback from volunteers in our target audience, advanced and intermediate users, suggests that we may have achieved our cognitive objectives.
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In every community there are personnel (for example, key workers, volunteers, ‘community gatekeepers’) who are also consulted by its members at times of need.
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The volunteers, on the other hand, were at least from the next generation, compared to the cultivated variety from which they were lost.
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The role of mass media and the impact of volunteers are discussed in the next two chapters.
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volunteer
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Whether the respondent suffered from chronic diseases was not however related to his or her probability of being an
active
volunteer
.
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This undoubtedly will result in a
citizen
volunteer
reserve with a substantial preponderance of what are called teeth arms.
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The employees and 5,000 unpaid, committed volunteers have a full work load.
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