As this year’s theme for the Regional Stage will be helping others and volunteering, you will find some definitions and words related to this issue below.
A volunteer is...
• A person who performs or offers to perform a service voluntarily.
• Someone who offers his or her services freely, voluntary.
• A person who offers to do something of one's own free will.
• Someone who offers to do something without being forced.
- Also: The act of choosing to do something of one's own free will.
- Verb: Offer to do something.
Synonyms
or related words for this sense of volunteer:
Willingness and to be
willing: volition, will, volunteer, show willing, be agreeable to something, be only
too glad/pleased/happy (to do something), content yourself with something, do something of your own accord, stand for...
Volunteering is generally considered an altruistic activity, intended to promote good or improve human quality of life, but people also volunteer for their own skill development, to meet others, to make contacts for possible employment, to have fun, and a variety of other reasons that could be considered self-serving.
