volunteer

volunteer is a 9-letter English word with 13 senses as adjective, transitive verb, intransitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: One who enters into, or offers for, any service of his own free will. Face value is 12 in Scrabble and 16 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

9 letters · Scrabble 12 · Words With Friends 16 · 13 senses

Definitions

1. adjective. One who enters into, or offers for, any service of his own free will.
2. adjective. 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. adjective. 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.
4. adjective. Of or pertaining to a volunteer or volunteers; consisting of volunteers; voluntary; as, volunteer companies; volunteer advice.
5. transitive verb. To offer or bestow voluntarily, or without solicitation or compulsion; as, to volunteer one's services.
6. intransitive verb. To enter into, or offer for, any service of one's own free will, without solicitation or compulsion; as, he volunteered in that undertaking.
7. noun. a native or resident of Tennessee

   Synonyms: tennessean

8. noun. a person who performs voluntary work
9. noun. (military) a person who freely enlists for service

   Synonyms: voluntary

10. verb. tell voluntarily

    "He volunteered the information"

11. verb. do volunteer work
12. verb. agree freely

    "She volunteered to drive the old lady home"

    "I offered to help with the dishes but the hostess would not hear of it"

    Synonyms: offer

13. adjective. without payment

    "the soup kitchen was run primarily by unpaid helpers"

    "a volunteer fire department"

    Synonyms: unpaid

Synonyms

tennessean, voluntary, offer, unpaid

Common word forms

volunteers, volunteered, volunteerly, volunteering

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