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# voluntarily

«voluntarily» in Mova's school dictionary: **Because you choose to, without being forced or paid** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adverb (voluntarily)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Because you choose to, without being forced or paid. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/voluntarily/#m1)

2) (formal) Of your own free will. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/voluntarily/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In citizenship and everyday life: people help voluntarily at charity events. In formal and news language: «He voluntarily handed himself in.» Tells the reader the person chose to act.

### examples

- She voluntarily stayed behind to tidy the classroom. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/voluntarily/#x1)
- He voluntarily gave back the money he had found. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/voluntarily/#x2)
- Many people voluntarily give blood. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/voluntarily/#x3)
- The children voluntarily raised money for the shelter. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/voluntarily/#x4)
- Nobody asked him; he did it voluntarily. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/voluntarily/#x5)
- The player voluntarily left the game to let others play. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/voluntarily/#x6)
- He became, however, so attached to Aphrodite that he voluntarily devoted to her the time at his own disposal. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/voluntarily/#x7)

### note

Adjective: voluntary; noun: volunteer. Say VOL-un-tair-i-lee (US) or vol-un-TAIR-i-lee (UK). Opposite: by force, compulsorily.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «voluntarily» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/voluntarily/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.