Honorary vs Volunteer - What's the difference?
honorary | volunteer |
Given as an honor/honour, with no duties attached, and without payment.
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An honorarium; a fee for services of no fixed value.
A kind of secret society that operates in name only, with membership given to honor some achievement.
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.
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A native or resident of the American state of Tennessee.
(label) To enlist oneself as a volunteer.
(label) To do or offer to do something voluntarily.
(label) To offer.
To grow without human sowing or intentional cultivation.
To offer the services of (someone else) to do something.
As nouns the difference between honorary and volunteer
is that honorary is an honorarium; a fee for services of no fixed value 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 honorary
is given as an honor/honour, with no duties attached, and without payment.As a verb volunteer is
(label) to enlist oneself as a volunteer.honorary
English
Adjective
(-)- honorary degree
- honorary citizen
- honorary consul
- honorary vice president
- honorary member of the family
Derived terms
* honorary authorship * honorary title * honorary trustNoun
(honoraries)volunteer
English
(wikipedia volunteer)Noun
(en noun)Verb
(en verb)- to volunteer for doing the dishes
- to volunteer an explanation
- My sister volunteered me to do the dishes.
