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Adjective volunteer- has 1 sense
- unpaid, volunteer - without payment; "the soup kitchen was run primarily by unpaid helpers"; "a volunteer fire department"
Antonyms: involuntary, nonvoluntary, unvoluntary (indirect, via voluntary)
Noun volunteer- has 2 senses
- volunteer, military volunteer, voluntary - (military) a person who freely enlists for service
--1 is a kind of serviceman, military man, man, military personnel
Antonyms: draftee, conscript, inductee
- volunteer, unpaid worker - a person who performs voluntary work
--2 is a kind of worker
--2 has particulars: candy striper; pledge taker; vigilante, vigilance man
Verb volunteer- has 3 senses
- volunteer - tell voluntarily; "He volunteered the information"
--1 is one way to inform
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s that CLAUSE
- volunteer, offer - agree freely; "She volunteered to drive the old lady home"; "I offered to help with the dishes but the hostess would not hear of it"
--2 is one way to act, move
Sample sentence:
They volunteer to move
- volunteer - do volunteer work
--3 is one way to work
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s PP
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