0 present participle of volunteer --
1 to offer to do something that you do not have to do, often without having been asked to do it and/or without expecting payment: --
[ + speech ] "I saw her going out of the main entrance half an hour ago," he volunteered.
If I were you, I wouldn't volunteer any details of what happened.
I volunteered myself for the position of Health and Safety Representative.
He volunteered for the army (= he joined even though he did not have to).
[ + to infinitive ] During the emergency many staff volunteered to work through the weekend.
A similar, though weaker, relationship was shown between volunteering and chronic physical-health problems.
For example, the relatively numerous characters portrayed in volunteering could make older people aware of possible activities for themselves.
Volunteering, like voting, is another form of social participation.
Almost embarrassingly eager to let us know how much research he has done, he is the theater's ultimate teacher's pet, forever volunteering details.
At one end of this spectrum is formal paid employment, and at the other end is unpaid community self-help, mutual aid and volunteering.
Promoting transformative learning enables community volunteering to provide meaningful roles for seniors, and promotes citizenship participation and the social economy in an ageing society.
This situation is perfectly familiar, and applies not only to religious vocations generally, but to non-religious cases of volunteering, such as for a military mission.
The costs of volunteering were perceived as time, responsibility, invasion of social life, failure, anxiety, and the duration and intensity of training.
