Volunteer

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

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

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

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

V. Volunteer ·adj 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.

VI. Volunteer ·adj 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.