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单词 volunteer
释义 vol·un·teer
I. \|välən.|ti(ə)r, -iə\ noun
(-s)
Etymology: obsolete French voluntaire (now volontaire), from voluntaire, adjective, voluntary, from Latin voluntarius — more at voluntary
1. : one who enters into or offers himself for any service of his own free will: as
 a. : one who enters into military service voluntarily but who is then subject to discipline and regulations like other soldiers — opposed to conscript
 b.
  (1) : one who renders a service or takes part in a transaction while having no legal interest, duty, or authority with respect to it : an intruder in a transaction who has no legal concern or interest to advance or to protect (as where one renders a service without any express or implied agreement for compensation or seeks to become the servant of another without his assent or pays the debt of a stranger)
  (2) : one who receives a conveyance or transfer of property without giving valuable consideration : a gratuitous grantee or transferee : donee
2. : a volunteer plant
 < oats may persist as a volunteer for several years >
3. usually capitalized : an officer or member of the Volunteers of America organized in 1896 along military lines for evangelistic and philanthropic work
II. adjective
1. : of or relating to a volunteer : consisting of volunteers : voluntary
 < a volunteer fire department >
 < volunteer advice >
 < volunteer work >
2. : growing spontaneously without direct human control or supervision
 < in some areas there is still an adequate volunteer crop of game; in others management is essential >
especially : growing without cultivation from seeds lost from a previous crop
 < a stand of volunteer wheat >
III. verb
(-ed/-ing/-s)
transitive verb
: to offer or bestow voluntarily or without solicitation or compulsion
 < volunteer his services >
 < volunteer help >
 < volunteer information >
 < volunteer a donation >
intransitive verb
1. : to enter into or offer oneself for any service of one's own free will without solicitation or compulsion : offer
 < volunteer in an undertaking >
 < volunteer for the army >
2. : to grow spontaneously : form a volunteer crop or stand
 < many clovers perpetuate themselves indefinitely by volunteering >
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