voluntary

The help you offer your mother is voluntary.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 24, 2026

Now she is part of a group of people who are worried they may have been poisoned by years of exposure to toxic waste, and are campaigning for voluntary blood testing across Wales.

From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026

The job cuts will initially be voluntary in the U.K, the company told staff on Wednesday.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026

Since the announcement, UCU bosses said there had been 149 applications for voluntary redundancies, which should now rule out the need for compulsory redundancies.

From BBC ● Sep. 21, 2026

“Did you say this sale was voluntary, Brother Leon ?” Jerry asked.

From "The Chocolate War" by Robert Cormier

Usually these voluntaries were real milk-and-water affairs," he recalled, "but one day the organist did something really wild, which was thrilling.

From The Guardian ● Dec. 5, 2012

Villona returned quietly to his piano and played voluntaries for them.

From Dubliners by James Joyce

This decided on she slipped the bracelet into her pocket, and played her voluntaries with a light heart.

From Two on a Tower by Thomas Hardy

"The organist played as opening voluntaries the 'Bridal March' from 'Lohengrin,' Barnaby's 'Bridal March' from 'Lohengrin,' and Barnaby's 'Bridal March.'"

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, February 23, 1916 by Sir Owen Seaman

I am afraid Henrietta was not always faithful to Bach and Beethoven in her voluntaries.

From Italian Letters of a Diplomat's Life January-May, 1880; February-April, 1904 by Mary Alsop King Waddington