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vol·un·teer       (vŏl'ən-tîr')  Pronunciation Key 
n.  
  1. A person who performs or offers to perform a service voluntarily: an information booth staffed by volunteers; hospital volunteers.
  2. Law
    1. A person who renders aid, performs a service, or assumes an obligation voluntarily.
    2. A person who holds property under a deed made without consideration.
  3. Botany A cultivated plant growing from self-sown or accidentally dropped seed.

adj.  
  1. Being, consisting of, or done by volunteers: volunteer firefighters; volunteer tutoring.
  2. Botany Growing from self-sown or accidentally dropped seed. Used of a cultivated plant or crop.

v.   vol·un·teered, vol·un·teer·ing, vol·un·teers

v.   tr.
To give or offer to give voluntarily: volunteered their services; volunteer to give blood.

v.   intr.
  1. To perform or offer to perform a service of one's own free will.
  2. To do charitable or helpful work without pay: Many retirees volunteer in community service and day care centers.


[Obsolete French voluntaire, from Old French, voluntary, from Latin voluntārius; see voluntary.]

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