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(1):

(v. t.) To offer or bestow voluntarily, or without solicitation or compulsion; as, to volunteer one's services.

(2):

(a.) 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.

(3):

(a.) 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.

(4):

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

(5):

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

(6):

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

Bibliography Information
Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Volunteer'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​v/volunteer.html. 1828.
 
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