Volunteer Synonyms & Definitions

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• VolunteerDefinition & Meaning in English

1. (a.) One who enters into, or offers for, any service of his own free will.
2. (v. i.) To enter into, or offer for, any service of ones own free will, without solicitation or compulsion; as, he volunteered in that undertaking.
3. (a.) Of or pertaining to a volunteer or volunteers; consisting of volunteers; voluntary; as, volunteer companies; volunteer advice.
4. (a.) A grantee in a voluntary conveyance; one to whom a conveyance is made without valuable consideration; a party, other than a wife or child of the grantor, to whom, or for whose benefit, a voluntary conveyance is made.
5. (v. t.) To offer or bestow voluntarily, or without solicitation or compulsion; as, to volunteer ones services.
6. (a.) One who enters into 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.

• VolunteeredDefinition & Meaning in English

1. (imp. & p. p.) of Volunteer

• Volunteer navyDefinition & Meaning in English

1. () A navy of vessels fitted out and manned by volunteers who sail under the flag of the regular navy and subject to naval discipline. Prussia in 1870, in the Franco-German war, organized such a navy, which was commanded by merchant seamen with temporary commissions, with the claim (in which England acquiesced) that it did not come within the meaning of the term privateer.