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# volunteer

«volunteer» in Mova's school dictionary: **someone who does a job without being paid, because they…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a volunteer, volunteers); verb (volunteer, volunteers, volunteered, volunteering)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A volunteer is someone who does a job without being paid, because they want to help. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/volunteer/#m1)

2) A volunteer is someone who offers to do something nobody forced them to do. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/volunteer/#m2)

3) To volunteer is to offer to do something, or to work without pay. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/volunteer/#m3)

4) To volunteer information is to tell it without being asked. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/volunteer/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday life volunteers help at charity shops, food banks, beach clean-ups and sports clubs. In class, a teacher asks «Any volunteers?» and you put your hand up. Phrases: volunteer for, volunteer to, any volunteers, volunteer work, charity volunteer.

### examples

- Can I have a volunteer to hand out the books? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/volunteer/#x1)
- My mum volunteers at the food bank every Saturday. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/volunteer/#x2)
- She volunteered to read her poem aloud. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/volunteer/#x3)
- Twenty volunteers picked up litter on the beach. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/volunteer/#x4)
- Volunteers at the animal shelter walk the dogs. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/volunteer/#x5)
- Each of 12 volunteers worked 3 hours, so they gave 36 hours in all. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/volunteer/#x6)
- He volunteered the answer before anyone asked. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/volunteer/#x7)
- The king then promised a large reward to the soldier who would volunteer for the post. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/volunteer/#x8)

### note

Both a noun and a regular verb. The adjective is «voluntary» (done by choice or unpaid). Volunteers do not get paid, so in a maths problem their work costs nothing.

### In the corpora

- [When they want to help, they give money to charities, get sponsored for a challenge or volunteer their time.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/32-bad-news-protests-and-helping-others/5/)
- [Volunteering means working without pay to help a good cause, like Gran's shift at the charity shop.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/32-bad-news-protests-and-helping-others/18/)
- [Giving is not only money; a volunteer helps without being paid, and time, help and kindness count too.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/39-lending-sharing-charity-and-tipping/9/)
- [Canvassing means volunteers going door to door to talk to voters and hear what they care about.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/12-adverts-slogans-and-polls/16/)
- [Volunteering means giving time freely, for example visiting lonely people or cleaning up the area.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/27-sunday-school-youth-groups-and-charity/17/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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