Volunteered vs Voluntary - What's the difference?
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(volunteer)
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.
Done, given, or acting of one's own free will.
* N. W. Taylor
* Alexander Pope
Done by design or intention; intentional.
Working or done without payment.
Endowed with the power of willing.
* Hooker
Of or relating to voluntaryism.
(obsolete) Voluntarily.
*1590 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , III.4:
*:And all that els was pretious and deare, / The sea unto him voluntary brings [...].
(music) A short piece of music, often having improvisation, played on a solo instrument
A volunteer
As a verb volunteered
is (volunteer).As an adjective voluntary is
done, given, or acting of one's own free will.As an adverb voluntary is
(obsolete) voluntarily.As a noun voluntary is
(music) a short piece of music, often having improvisation, played on a solo instrument.volunteered
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Verb
(head)volunteer
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(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.
References
*voluntary
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Adjective
(en adjective)- That sin or guilt pertains exclusively to voluntary action is the true principle of orthodoxy.
- She fell to lust a voluntary prey.
- If a man accidentally kills another by lopping a tree, it is not voluntary manslaughter.
- God did not work as a necessary, but a voluntary , agent, intending beforehand, and decreeing with himself, that which did outwardly proceed from him.
- a voluntary church, in distinction from an established or state church