VOLUNTEERED

Definition: VOLUNTEERED

VOLUNTEERED

Imperative & past participle

1. Of Volunteer

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "VOLUNTEERED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1615. (references)

Crosswords: VOLUNTEERED

I volunteered. I dropped out of college, told 'em I wanted the infantry, combat, Vietnam (Platoon; writing credit: Oliver Stone)

Many of us volunteered to fight for the Union (Gettysburg; writing credit: Ronald F. Maxwell)

These men have been through the toughest training the Army has to offer, under the worst possible circumstances, and they volunteered for it. (Band of Brothers; writing credit: Stephen Ambrose; Erik Jendresen)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Teens With the Courage to Give: Young People Who Triumphed over Tragedy and Volunteered to Make a Difference (Call to Action Book) (reference)

• The President's Spouse: Volunteer or Volunteered (reference)

• They volunteered (reference)

• You Have Already Volunteered (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• Volunteered Slavery (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

John Torgan of Save the Bay RI volunteered services to the transplant team and to reporters and the NOAA film crew during the 1997 transplants. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

Dante Electric Company, Bantam, Connecticut. Mrs. Arthur Shaw is another resident of Bantam. Her husband is a private chauffeur in Litchfield. Mr. Dante is watching her operate a small drill press. Mrs. Shaw has volunteered to serve as one of Bantam's air. Credit: Library of Congress.

India in the war. Bridge in the nurses' mess. Hundreds of Indian nurses have volunteered and are seeing active service alongside Indian doctors in the Middle East. Credit: Library of Congress.

Mrs. Evelyn Hauser, Red Corss nurse, prepares a volunteer blood donor at San Quentin for his donation. During the Red Cross mobile unit's visit to the penitentiary, 150 prisoners gave blood and more than twice that number volunteered but were unable to gi. Credit: Library of Congress.

Coffee and cakes taste pretty good to these San Quentin prisoners who have just given blood to the Red Cross mobile unit. Of the hundreds of men who volunteered to give blood to the bank, 150 were taken care of during the unit's four-hour visit to the pen. Credit: Library of Congress.

These New Yorkers volunteered last week--Is your name on this list?. Credit: Library of Congress.

2285 New Yorkers volunteered in one week--Is your name on this list?. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Civil Liberties

Pakistan

A number of families from the Nasir Bagh and Jalozai camps volunteered for and were assisted by the UNHCR in voluntary repatriation to Afghanistan during the year. (references)

Nigeria

During the year, Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) leaders volunteered to place teachers of Christianity in Zamfara and Sokoto state schools, where students alleged that they were being forced to take courses in Islamic religious knowledge in order to graduate. (references)

Economic History

Lithuania

Because of his proclamation of liberation and self-rule, many Lithuanians gratefully volunteered for the French Army when Napoleon occupied Kaunas in 1812 during the fateful invasion of Russia. (references)

Human Rights

Nicaragua

The police department volunteered to take care of the children's medical expenses at the local hospital. (references)

Political Rights

Oman

The number of eligible female voters increased from 5,000 to 52,000. In August 2000, a royal decree abolished the prior procedure under which voters (or electors) had volunteered as candidates for Council seats, had their police records checked by the Government, and relied on government approval of their decision to run. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Chinese 

志愿 (Volunteering). (various references)

German

meldete sich freiwillig, erbot sich. (various references)

Korean 

자원하�". (various references)

Pig Latin

olunteeredvay.(various references)

Misspellings

"VOLUNTEERED" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: volunteere, voluntere, voluntered. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: volunteer.

-3 letters: deuteron, devouter, louvered, neutered, overlend, overlent, redolent, relented, revenued, revolted, revolute, rondelet, roundlet, truelove, underlet, unreeled, unreeved, ventured.

-4 letters: denture, devotee, entered, erodent, everted, evolute, levered, leveret, louvred, needler, nervule, overdue, overlet, retuned, reveled, revenue, revoted, roundel, rundlet, tenured, toluene, trundle, unloved, unreeve, urodele, veloute, velured, venture, voluted.

-5 letters: delete, delver, denote.

+5 letters: underdevelopment.