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Employee vs Volunteer - What's the difference?

employee | volunteer |

As verbs the difference between employee and volunteer

is that employee is while volunteer is (label) to enlist oneself as a volunteer.

As a noun volunteer is

one who enters into, or offers for, any service of his/her own free will, especially when done without pay.

employee

English

Alternative forms

* employe *

Noun

(wikipedia employee) (en noun)
  • An individual who provides labor to a company or another person.
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    One way to encourage your employees to work harder is by giving them incentives .

    See also

    * payroll * taxes * work English words suffixed with -ee

    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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