volunteer
/ˌvɑlənˈtɪ(ə)ɹ/ verb B1- To enlist oneself as a volunteer.
- To do or offer to do something voluntarily. · to volunteer for doing the dishes
- To offer, usually unprompted. · to volunteer an explanation
- To offer the services of (someone else) to do something. · My sister volunteered me to do the dishes.
- To grow without human sowing or intentional cultivation.
He/she/it volunteers · Past volunteered · Past participle volunteered · -ing form volunteering
Verb forms
- Base form
- volunteer
- He/she/it
- volunteers
- Past
- volunteered
- Past participle
- volunteered
- -ing form
- volunteering
From the library
The French government, without protecting them openly, as you know, gave countenance to volunteer assistance.
The Boots volunteered to show me the room: it was on the second floor, and there was a small corridor leading up to it.
Peter had asked him, of course, for Matthew Cuthbert had never been known to volunteer information about anything in his whole life.
He was Colonel Emsworth's only son—Emsworth, the Crimean V.C.—and he had the fighting blood in him, so it is no wonder he volunteered.
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