Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference - volunteer
Volunteer
volunteer
n. & v. --n. 1 a person who voluntarily undertakes a task or enters military or other service, esp. Mil. hist. a member of any of the corps of voluntary soldiers formerly organized in the UK and provided with instructors, arms, etc., by the State. 2 (usu. attrib.) a self-sown plant. --v. 1 tr. (often foll. by to + infin.) undertake or offer (one's services, a remark or explanation, etc.) voluntarily. 2 intr. (often foll. by for) make a voluntary offer of one's services; be a volunteer. Etymology: F volontaire (as VOLUNTARY), assim. to -EER
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I. noun Etymology: obsolete French voluntaire (now volontaire), from voluntaire, adjective, voluntary, from Old French, from Latin voluntarius Date: circa 1600 a person who voluntarily undertakes or expresses a willingness to undertake a service: as, one who enters into military service voluntarily, b. one who renders a service or takes part in a transaction while having no legal concern or interest, one who receives a conveyance or transfer of property without giving valuable consideration, a ~ plant, a member of a quasi-military religious and philanthropic organization founded in 1896 by Commander and Mrs. Ballington Booth, II. adjective Date: 1649 being, consisting of, or engaged in by ~s , growing spontaneously without direct human control or supervision especially from seeds lost from a previous crop , III. verb Date: circa 1755 intransitive verb to offer oneself as a ~ , transitive verb to offer or bestow voluntarily ...Толковый словарь английского языка
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