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volunteer

[vol-uhn-teer] / ˌvɒl ənˈtɪər /


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Consider where you’ll live, how you’ll spend your time — including hobbies, volunteer work, and travel — and what those choices will cost.

From MarketWatch

Dean has become a kind of matchmaker, pairing neighbors’ needs with volunteers’ skills and, in the process, strengthening the sense of mattering of everyone who walks through the door.

From The Wall Street Journal

The United States has been searching the world for countries to contribute to the force, with Indonesia an early volunteer.

From Barron's

Their authors were seldom scholars; more often they were nonprofessional writers and editors whose volunteer contributions ranged from family snapshots to gravestone photographs, fragmented town histories, folkloric anecdotes and tall tales.

From The Wall Street Journal

When asked about the additional accusation surfacing, Stein said Busfield had volunteered to do a polygraph test and had passed it.

From BBC