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Invite vs Volunteer - What's the difference?

invite | volunteer |

As verbs the difference between invite and volunteer

is that invite 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.

invite

English

Verb

  • To ask for the presence or participation of someone or something.
    • We invited our friends round for dinner.
  • To request formally.
    • I invite you all to be seated.
  • To encourage.
    • I always invite criticism of my definitions.
    Wearing that skimpy dress, you are bound to invite attention.
  • * 1902 , Roosevelt,
    • The refusal to maintain such a navy would invite trouble, and if trouble came would insure disaster.
  • To allure; to draw to; to tempt to come; to induce by pleasure or hope; to attract.
  • * Milton
    • to inveigle and invite the unwary sense
  • * Dryden
    • shady groves, that easy sleep invite
  • * Cowper
    • There no delusive hope invites despair.

    Synonyms

    * (ask for the presence or participation of) ask out * (request formally) ask, beseech, entreat, request * (encourage) ask for, encourage, provoke

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (informal) An invitation.

    • 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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