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Compulsory vs Volunteer - What's the difference?

compulsory | volunteer |

As nouns the difference between compulsory and volunteer

is that compulsory is something that is compulsory or required while volunteer is one who enters into, or offers for, any service of his/her own free will, especially when done without pay.

As an adjective compulsory

is required; obligatory; mandatory.

As a verb volunteer is

(label) to enlist oneself as a volunteer.

compulsory

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Required; obligatory; mandatory.
  • * 1827 , A. D. Jr., Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal , A. and C. Black, page 212:
  • They are entirely private concerns, established by individual teachers, and attendance upon them is no more compulsory than attendance on our dispensaries.
  • * 1996 , (Ugo Pagano), Democracy and Efficiency in the Economic Enterprise , page 73:
  • Some might agree that membership in the firm is perhaps more compulsory than membership in a municipality, but balk at applying the analogy to the nation.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-19, author=(Peter Wilby)
  • , volume=189, issue=6, page=30, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Finland spreads word on schools , passage=Imagine a country where children do nothing but play until they start compulsory schooling at age seven. Then, without exception, they attend comprehensives until the age of 16. Charging school fees is illegal, and so is sorting pupils into ability groups by streaming or setting.}}
  • Having the power of compulsion; constraining.
  • Synonyms

    * mandatory

    Antonyms

    * (required) optional

    Noun

    (compulsories)
  • Something that is compulsory or required.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2008, date=March 22, author=The Associated Press, title=French Victory in Ice Dance, work=New York Times citation
  • , passage=Delobel and Schoenfelder failed to win the free dance, but they had built a big lead in the compulsories and the original dance. }}

    volunteer

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • One who enters into, or offers for, any service of his/her own free will, especially when done without pay.
  • (label) One who enters into military service voluntarily, but who, when in service, is subject to discipline and regulations like other soldiers; -- opposed to conscript; specifically, a voluntary member of the organized militia of a country as distinguished from the standing army.
  • (label) A person who acts out of his own will without a legal obligation, such as a donor.
  • in Wikipedia.
  • A native or resident of the American state of Tennessee.
  • Verb

    (en verb)
  • (label) To enlist oneself as a volunteer.
  • (label) To do or offer to do something voluntarily.
  • to volunteer for doing the dishes
  • (label) To offer.
  • to volunteer an explanation
  • To grow without human sowing or intentional cultivation.
  • To offer the services of (someone else) to do something.
  • My sister volunteered me to do the dishes.

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