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Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 1 of 4

Part of speech: noun (n.)

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

2. 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. 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.

Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 2 of 4

Part of speech: verb (v.)

To offer or bestow voluntarily, or without solicitation or compulsion; as, to volunteer one's services.

Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 3 of 4

Part of speech: verb (v.)

To enter into, or offer for, any service of one's own free will, without solicitation or compulsion; as, he volunteered in that undertaking.

Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 4 of 4

Part of speech: adjective (a.)

Of or pertaining to a volunteer or volunteers; consisting of volunteers; voluntary; as, volunteer companies; volunteer advice.

Noah Webster's American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Structured JSON vendored from sktzofrenic/webster1828 at commit 5a58d9e0191eefaa51affbc1bb1b8bc5782ba6c0. The upstream README identifies the dictionary text as public domain and the project license as MIT.

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