VOLUNTEERING

Definition: VOLUNTEERING

VOLUNTEERING

Personal pronoun & verb & noun

1. Of Volunteer

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Date "VOLUNTEERING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1851. (references)

Synonyms within Context: VOLUNTEERING

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Willingness	Labor of love; volunteer, volunteering.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: VOLUNTEERING

English words defined with "VOLUNTEERING": reserve, reticence ♦ taciturnity. (references)

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Modern Usage: VOLUNTEERING

Domain

Usage

Screenplays

I'm sure you must be late for something - volunteering at the Henry Street Settlement, or rolling bandages for Bosnian Refugees. (You've Got Mail; writing credit: Nora Ephron)

And just what did you think you were doing, volunteering for a mission like that? (Battlestar Galactica; writing credit: Souleymane Cissé)

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

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Commercial Usage: VOLUNTEERING

Domain	Title
Books	Make a Difference: Your Guide to Volunteering and Community Service (reference) The Halo Effect: How Volunteering Can Lead to a More Fulfilling Life-And a Better Career (reference) The Universal Benefits of Volunteering : A Practical Workbook for Nonprofit Organizations, Volunteers, and Corporations (reference) Volunteering (United We Stand) (reference) Volunteering to Help Seniors (High Interest Books) (reference) (more book examples)

Periodicals	Giving And Volunteering In The United States - Full Report (reference) (more periodical examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: VOLUNTEERING

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Photo Album: VOLUNTEERING

Thumbnail	Description & Credit	Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Youth get involved in volunteering to help clean up public lands.Credit: Unknown.		Boy Scouts volunteering to pick apples from Rio Bonito area of Ft. Stanton, Roswell, NM. Apples are taken into Roswell and distributed to homeless and food kitchens.Credit: H. Parman.
	People volunteering their time at the Jenny Creek Project.Credit: Tim Haller.		Cub Scouts are volunteering by planting trees.Credit: Mel Ingeroi.
	Volunteering down Dixie.Credit: Library of Congress.		Field gun put up on the "green" to spur on volunteering for the army. Bristol, Vermont.Credit: Library of Congress.
	Hypnotist directing a group of people to do unusual things: men pretending to race while seated on man suspended between two chairs and audience "volunteering" for military duty with brooms as rifles.Credit: Library of Congress.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Speeches: VOLUNTEERING

Speaker	Term	Phrase(s)
Ronald Reagan	1981-1989	From thousands answering Peace Corps appeals to help boost food production in Africa, to millions volunteering time, corporations adopting schools, and communities pulling together to help the neediest among us at home, we have refound our values.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Usage Frequency: VOLUNTEERING

"VOLUNTEERING" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 95.12% of the time. "VOLUNTEERING" is used about 82 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Lexical Verb (-ing form)	95.12%	78	37,656
Noun (proper)	2.44%	2	245,945
Noun (singular)	2.44%	2	245,945
Total	100.00%	82	N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: VOLUNTEERING

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day	Expression	Frequency per Day
volunteering	496	toronto volunteering	7
teen volunteering	26	uk volunteering	7
international volunteering	24	volunteering in new york city	7
benefit of volunteering	22	animal shelter volunteering	6
quote volunteering	21	child volunteering	6
volunteering opportunity	20	australia volunteering	6
service volunteering	16	boston in volunteering	6
andes himalayas opportunity volunteering	16	poem volunteering	6
volunteering overseas	14	india volunteering	5
hospital volunteering	14	animal volunteering	5
volunteering abroad	13	in nyc volunteering	5
in toronto volunteering	13	vancouver volunteering	5
kid volunteering	12	volunteering job	5
diego san volunteering	9	chicago volunteering	5
houston in volunteering	9	arizona in volunteering	4
volunteering in africa	8	calgary volunteering	4
houston volunteering	8	boston volunteering	4
volunteering youth	7	charity volunteering	4
atlanta in volunteering	7	statistics volunteering	4
chicago in volunteering	7	quotation volunteering	4
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: VOLUNTEERING

Language		Translations for "VOLUNTEERING"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Arabic		‏تلقائية (spontaneity), ‏تطوع (enlist, recruit, volunteer). (various references)

Chinese		志愿 (Volunteered). (various references)

French		volontariat, spontanéité. (various references)

German		freiwilliges, anbietend (offering, offerring, proffering, propositioning, tendering). (various references)

Hebrew		�"ת�'יסות (enlisting, mobilization), �"ת� �"בות, �"חלצות (escape, getting out of trouble). (various references)

Hungarian		önkéntesség. (various references)

Japanese Kanji		無償行為 (gratuitous act), 挺身 (volunteer), 志願 (aspiration, desire). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		しが�" (aspiration, desire, historical insight, historical view, nature, spontaneous, the highest good, this world), むしょう�"うい (gratuitous act), ていし�" (boat length, communications, courtier, go ahead of, volunteer). (various references)

Korean		자원 (resource). (various references)

Pig Latin		olunteeringvay

Spanish		voluntariado (disinterested voluntary work, voluntary work). (various references)

Vietnamese		chế độ quân tình nguyện sự tình nguyện tòng quân. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: VOLUNTEERING

Misspellings
	"VOLUNTEERING" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: volenteering, voluntering. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "VOLUNTEERING"

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "VOLUNTEERING" (pronounced vô'lunti"ring)
5	-t i" r i ng	profiteering, racketeering, steering.
4	-i" r i ng	adhering, appearing, bioengineering, cheering, clearing, disappearing, domineering, earring, electioneering, engineering, fearing, gearing, hearing, interfering, nearing, overhearing, pioneering, premiering, rearing, reengineering, rehearing, searing, shearing, smearing, sneering, Spearing, veering.
3	-r i ng	acquiring, admiring, adoring, airing, alluring, aspiring, assuring, baring, barring, bearing, blaring, boring, caring, chairing, charring, childbearing, comparing, conspiring, curing, daring, declaring, deploring, despairing, during, endearing, enduring, ensuring, expiring, exploring, firing, flaring, flooring, glaring, Goring, haring, herring, hiring, ignoring, impairing, imploring, inspiring, insuring, jarring, jeering, luring, marring, maturing, ministering, mooring, obscuring, outpouring, overbearing, overpowering, pairing, paring, peering, perspiring, poring, pouring, preparing, procuring, quiring, reassuring, rehiring, repairing, restoring, retiring, roaring, scaring, scarring, scoring, securing, sharing, shoring, snaring, snoring, soaring, sparing, sparring, squaring, staring, starring, stevedoring, storing, swearing, tarring, tearing, tiring, touring, uncaring, underscoring, uninspiring, unsparing, Waring, warring, wearing, wiring.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: VOLUNTEERING

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "e-e-g-i-l-n-n-o-r-t-u-v"
	-3 letters: neutering, relenting, revolting, unreeling, unreeving, venturing, volunteer.
	-4 letters: eloigner, entering, everting, geniture, inventer, inventor, involute, levering, neutrino, nitrogen, nonelite, nonguilt, outgiven, outliner, outliver, overgilt, overlent, reguline, reinvent, retuning, reveling, revolute, revoting, roentgen, truelove, tunneler, ungentle, unloving, veinulet, veluring, vigneron, virulent.
	-5 letters: eloiner, eluting, elution, enliven, enteron, enuring, environ, erelong, eugenol, evening, evolute, genitor.
	Words containing the letters "e-e-g-i-l-n-n-o-r-t-u-v"
	+1 letter: overindulgent.
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