Category:Volunteer

Vol`un*teer", n. Etym: [f. volontaire. See voluntary, a.]

1. One who enters into, or offers for, any service of his own free Will.

2. (mil.)

Defn: 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.

3. (law)

Defn: 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.

Volunteer Vol`un*teer", a.

Defn: of or pertaining to a volunteer or volunteers; consisting of Volunteers; voluntary; as, volunteer companies; volunteer advice.

Volunteer Vol`un*teer", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Volunteered; p. pr. & vb. n. Volunteering.]

Defn: to offer or bestow voluntarily, or without solicitation or Compulsion; as, to volunteer one's services.

Volunteer Vol`un*teer", v. i.

Defn: to enter into, or offer for, any service of one's own free Will, without solicitation or compulsion; as, he volunteered in that Undertaking.