volunteer

vol|un|teer1 [ ,valən`tır ] noun count **

1. ) someone who offers to do something without being forced:

Can I have a volunteer to erase the chalkboard, please?

volunteer for: Doctors need 50 healthy volunteers for the diet.

2. ) someone who is not paid for the work that they do:

a volunteer worker

The organization is appealing for volunteers.

volunteers who tutor high school students

a small team of volunteers

volunteer for: He is a volunteer for the Gay Helpline.

3. ) someone who joins the military without being forced

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volunteer

vol|un|teer 2 [ ,valən`tır ] verb *

▸ 1 offer to help

▸ 2 work without pay

▸ 3 give information

▸ 4 join army

▸ 5 say someone will do something

1. ) intransitive to offer or choose to do something without being forced:

volunteer to do something: An accountant volunteered to help with the wildlife sanctuary's accounts.

volunteer for: Thirty-two patients volunteered for the research study.

volunteer your services (as something): I volunteered my services as a cook.

2. ) intransitive or transitive to do some work without getting paid:

Claire volunteers at the homeless shelter once a week.

3. ) intransitive or transitive to say something or give information without being asked:

volunteer that: Martha volunteered that they planned to adopt a child.

volunteer information/a suggestion/an opinion: He didn't ask me, and I didn't volunteer any information.

4. ) intransitive to agree to join the military without being forced

5. ) transitive to say that someone else will do something before asking them if they are willing to do it:

My mother has volunteered me to help with the school play.