I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
volunteer for redundancy (= offer to take redundancy )
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Nearly 40% of the workforce volunteered for redundancy.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
army
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The principle of opportunity cost was recognized by Congress when it eliminated the draft in favor of the volunteer army .
corps
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I met a couple of Peace Corps volunteers who walked a kilometre each morning to fetch water.
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The judges thought that we, the Peace Corps volunteers , had turned these guys on.
student
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Have a student volunteer fill the glass completely with water and place the cardboard on top of it.
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Ask a student volunteer to draw a line down the middle of one side without taking the pencil off the paper.
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Have a new student volunteer place one hand on top of the cardboard while carefully turning the glass upside-down.
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Ask another student volunteer to cut along the line.
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The area was cleaned up by student volunteers and local scouts planted trees in parts of the Sanctuary.
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Have student volunteers compare the weight of the two grapes in their hands and tell you which feels heavier.
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Have a student volunteer pour some water from the thermos into each cup and put a thermometer in it.
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Have several student volunteers feel the outsides of the cups.
work
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She had toyed with the idea of doing volunteer work with the homeless, but had done nothing about it.
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Many others who have begun volunteer work for the first time say something similar.
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The work was totally different to the volunteer work I had done at home and was quite a challenge.
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More than half the employees of the publishing company do volunteer work through its Community Connection Program.
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Part of our volunteers work is to commend to schools our range of written and audio-visual materials.
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Those activities could include attending a literacy program, doing volunteer work , or attending parenting classes.
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Sammy is already an accomplished player of the electric organ and looks forward to having more time for this and volunteer work .
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With the extra free time, they might do more volunteer work , Jerome said.
worker
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A year after the Darlington Help Furniture project was launched, volunteer workers are still busy organising furniture switches throughout the town.
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Help needed: Hartlepool's Citizens Advice Bureau is recruiting volunteer workers .
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Joyce Standing, a community centre volunteer worker , said a bus ban would have made life impossible for many residents.
■ VERB
ask
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During a lecture to a lay group he asked a volunteer to come to the front and do a reading.
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Is it full? 2. Ask a volunteer to add sand to the container of marbles.
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I originally saw an advert in the paper asking for volunteers for the hospital radio station.
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Ask again how many sides the paper circle has. 4. Ask another student volunteer to cut along the line.
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I ask that volunteers should contact me and the steering committee should be non-political.
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After firing off a couple of jokes that bomb disastrously, he will ask for a volunteer from the audience.
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Worse yet, black and Latino teens were far less likely to be asked to volunteer than whites.
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She then asks the volunteer to make a fist and hold her arm out with as much strength as she can muster.
help
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The council race is non-partisan but party affiliation often helps in recruiting volunteers and raising money.
involve
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In April 1982 Cambridgeshire introduced a four-year pilot scheme that involved seven volunteer schools: six secondary, one primary.
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He found he enjoyed the buzz of the work and became involved in training other volunteers in the use of computers.
join
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Katharine wants to hear from businesses, Phil wants to hear from anyone interested in joining the volunteer Greenfingers team.
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Our low-key departure meant that Joe, Loi, Mark and I could be joined by a fifth volunteer .
need
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We also need volunteers to man/woman these stalls.
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The organization needs volunteers who can commit to work in the facility four hours a week.
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The tax agency needs volunteers to help answer tax-questions and fill out basic federal and state income tax returns.
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The large-scale project needs up to fifteen volunteers at a time, distributed amongst five scientists.
provide
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The aim now is to improve and expand both facilities for passengers and the accommodation the railway provides for volunteers .
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Many food banks provide volunteer gleaners, or pickers, who will come to your house to pick the fruit.
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We provide volunteer accommodation in our hostel about Llanuwchllyn station and a free hearty lunch is available every day.
recruit
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Just as important, Dwyer launched a major public consultation exercise, recruiting 100 volunteers representing a cross section of the population.
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The council race is non-partisan but party affiliation often helps in recruiting volunteers and raising money.
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In response to such shortages bureaux may mount campaigns to recruit more volunteers .
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The National Lottery may be a catalyst for a change in this attitude, and so might the problems with recruiting volunteers .
send
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It then sent out volunteers every month to rate each of 6, 000 streets.
train
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He found he enjoyed the buzz of the work and became involved in training other volunteers in the use of computers.
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They were tough, highly trained volunteers in the Airborne, but some looked very young to me.
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After a one-day training program, volunteers help park rangers teach visitors how to tide-pool safely and carefully.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
willing helper/volunteer/partner etc
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Any Texas prisoner who finds a willing partner on the outside is allowed to be married.
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Find yourself a willing partner and sit facing each other.
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For example, a teacher who says that she thinks some of the dolls need bathing will soon have some willing helpers.
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I belong to several organisations, some are small and local who need willing helpers and supporters.
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Non-horsy spouses and relatives can be trained for this role, but they must be willing helpers!
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There may be a willing volunteer or a professional person specially appointed, but this may not be easy to find.
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Why should he bother, when he had a willing partner waiting back in his rooms?
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You take one pair of ends, your willing helper takes the other, and off you go.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a volunteer fire department
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I need someone to rake the yard. Any volunteers?
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Another revelation: enthusiastic volunteers were not necessarily best-suited to be foster parents, either by temperament or circumstances.
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Ask a volunteer to drop one of the liquids on the waxed paper near the high end, near one side.
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Bush has agreed to serve as co-chairman with Clinton at an April summit in Philadelphia to encourage volunteers to help the needy.
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It depends on unemployed volunteers who give much time and effort.
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The duke presented certificates to the first 16 volunteers who have been trained for the scheme.
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The four volunteers entered the test chamber on June 12 with a limited supply of air and water.
II. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
duty
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She volunteered for cooking duty at her college, knowing that she could pick at the food without anyone seeing.
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Those forced from their homes still were expected to volunteer for civil defense duties .
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He had used the police computer network and discovered his wife had volunteered for nursing duty .
information
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It never paid to volunteer information .
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Better to let them volunteer information for reasons of their own.
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She didn't volunteer any information about where Rohan Saint Yves slept.
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Mr James, 61, volunteered the information about his political links.
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First, she failed to volunteer any information about the relationship at all.
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She'd volunteered the information about Amy's marital relationships.
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He sure as hell was not going to volunteer the information .
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Tell her to answer Dalgliesh's questions but not to volunteer information , any information.
job
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The girls did not volunteer for the job .
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We can stop assuming that women are going to volunteer for the caretaking jobs regardless of how our society treats caretakers.
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I was telling Vitalis about the problem when he volunteered to do the job himself.
school
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Moreover, parents are required to volunteer in the school as part of their vocational training for Family Tree.
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A total of 10 Conservation Corps volunteers work at the school .
service
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No doubt some of them volunteered for war service a year later.
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By nightfall, the private airboat owners who had volunteered their services were asked to go home.
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Most of them volunteered for service in Bosnia.
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The United States further reserves to these provisions with respect to individuals who volunteer for military service prior to age 18.
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Mrs V Hawkins volunteered her services and G. Espin offered to provide street maps. 4.
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Nurses volunteer their services when they wish to work and managers engage them at the times required.
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Hofmeyr had volunteered his services free of charge.
■ VERB
ask
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Dispute about the safety of the operation led to dockers being asked to volunteer for the work of loading the ship.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Andy didn't wait to be drafted - he volunteered.
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Jill volunteered to go with me to the hospital.
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No one volunteered for night duty.
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Will anyone volunteer to help me clean up this mess?
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A teacher volunteers and works the staff through a brainstorming session, listing all the issues that they feel should be discussed.
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His wife, Alcestis, volunteers.
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It also volunteered a fat contribution to the San Diego Host Committee, which helped raise money for the convention.
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Some areas have volunteer clearing agencies where people wishing to volunteer can register.
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The girls did not volunteer for the job.
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We at Downtown News hereby volunteer to print those details if Wells Fargo makes them available.