Usually means: Offering services freely without payment.
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We found 40 dictionaries that define the word volunteer:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. volunteer: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. volunteer: Merriam-Webster
  3. volunteer: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. volunteer: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. volunteer: Collins English Dictionary
  6. Volunteer, volunteer: Vocabulary.com
  7. Volunteer, volunteer: Wordnik
  8. volunteer: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. volunteer: Wiktionary
  10. volunteer: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. volunteer: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. volunteer: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. volunteer: Dictionary.com
  14. volunteer (n.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. volunteer: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. The Volunteer (book), The Volunteer (canal boat), Volunteer (Irish republican), Volunteer (Old Crow Medicine Show album), Volunteer (Ulster loyalist), Volunteer (botany), Volunteer (disambiguation), Volunteer: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Volunteer: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. volunteer: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. volunteer: Rhymezone
  20. volunteer: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. volunteer: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. volunteer: FreeDictionary.org
  23. volunteer: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. volunteer: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Volunteer: Eastern Philosophy
  2. ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science (No longer online)

Business (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. volunteer: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  3. volunteer: Legal dictionary
  4. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. volunteer: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. volunteer: Medical dictionary
  2. Volunteer: Brain Injury

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. volunteer: Idioms
  3. Volunteer: Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Volunteer: A Seattle Lexicon
  2. volunteer: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  One who enters into, or offers themselves for, any service of their own free will, especially when done without pay.
noun:  (military) One who enters into military service voluntarily (but who, when in service, is subject to discipline and regulations like other soldiers), as opposed to a conscript.
noun:  (military) A voluntary member of the organized militia of a country, as distinguished from a regular or member of the standing army.
noun:  (law) A person who acts out of their own will without a legal obligation, such as a donor.
noun:  (botany, agriculture) A plant that grows spontaneously, without being cultivated on purpose; see volunteer plant in Wikipedia.
noun:  A native or resident of the American state of Tennessee.
verb:  (intransitive) To enlist oneself as a volunteer.
verb:  (ambitransitive) To do or offer to do something voluntarily.
verb:  (transitive) To offer, usually unprompted.
verb:  (transitive, informal) To offer the services of (someone else) to do something.
verb:  (intransitive, botany) To grow without human sowing or intentional cultivation.

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