volunteer

Definitions

1. 1.(Mil.) 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.
2. 2.(Law) 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. Burrill.
3. 3.Of or pertaining to a volunteer or volunteers; consisting of volunteers; voluntary; as, volunteer companies; volunteer advice.
4. 4.To offer or bestow voluntarily, or without solicitation or compulsion; as, to volunteer one's services.
5. 5.To enter into, or offer for, any service of one's own free will, without solicitation or compulsion; as, he volunteered in that undertaking.

Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).

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• What is of or pertaining to a volunteer or volunteers; consisting of volunteers; voluntary; as, volunteer companies; volunteer advice called?
• What is to offer or bestow voluntarily, or without solicitation or compulsion; as, to volunteer one's services called?
• What is to enter into, or offer for, any service of one's own free will, without solicitation or compulsion; as, he volunteered in that undertaking called?