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Volunteer vs Initiative - What's the difference?

volunteer | initiative |

As nouns the difference between volunteer and initiative

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

As a verb volunteer

is (label) to enlist oneself as a volunteer.

volunteer

English

(wikipedia 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.

    • Related terms

    * volition * volitional * voluntarism * voluntarist * voluntary

    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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    initiative

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A beginning; a first move.
  • A new development; a fresh approach to something; a new way of dealing with a problem.
  • The ability to act first or on one's own.
  • An issue to be voted on, brought to the ballot by a sufficient number of signatures from among the voting public.

    • Synonyms

    * (issue to be voted on) direct initiative

    Derived terms

    * direct initiative

    Related terms

    * initial * initialism * initialization * initialize * initiate * initiation

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Serving to initiate; inceptive; initiatory; introductory; preliminary.
  • In which voter s can be brought to the ballot.
  • * John G. Matsusaka, "Direct Democracy and the Executive Branch", in, 2008, Shaun Bowler and Amihai Glazer, editors, Direct Democracy's Impact on American Political Institutions , , ISBN 9780230604452, page 122 [http://books.google.com/books?id=J6swcucKdNIC&pg=PA122&dq=initiative]:
    • The second row shows that initiative states fill more constitutional offices by election than noninitiative states, and the difference is statistically significant after controlling for region and population.

    Antonyms

    * noninitiative

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