Volunteer vs Coerce - What's the difference?
volunteer | coerce |
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.
(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.
To restrain by force, especially by law or authority; to repress; to curb.
to use force, threat, fraud, or intimidation in attempt to compel one to act against his will.
(computing) to force an attribute, normally of a data type, to take on the attribute of another data type.
As verbs the difference between volunteer and coerce
is that volunteer is (label) to enlist oneself as a volunteer while coerce is to restrain by force, especially by law or authority; to repress; to curb.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.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.