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Before college, I hadn't voluntarily read anything that might be called literature; I didn't think I'd understand it; I never seemed to understand my English teacher's interpretations of what we read.
Melissa Bank

Meaning of "voluntarily" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF VOLUNTARILY

voluntarily  [ˈvɒləntərɪlɪ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF VOLUNTARILY

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Voluntarily is an adverb.
The adverb is an invariable part of the sentence that can change, explain or simplify a verb or another adverb.

WHAT DOES VOLUNTARILY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of voluntarily in the English dictionary

The first definition of voluntarily in the dictionary is in a willing manner. Other definition of voluntarily is in a manner that is without payment or is free of charge. Voluntarily is also spontaneously.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH VOLUNTARILY


auditorily
ˈɔːdɪtərɪlɪ
complimentarily
ˌkɒmplɪˈmɛntərɪlɪ
contradictorily
ˌkɒntrəˈdɪktərɪlɪ
derogatorily
dɪˈrɒɡətərɪlɪ
dilatorily
ˈdɪlətərɪlɪ
discriminatorily
dɪsˈkrɪmɪnətərɪlɪ
documentarily
ˌdɒkjʊˈmɛntərɪlɪ
elementarily
ˌɛlɪˈmɛntərɪlɪ
hereditarily
hɪˈrɛdɪtərɪlɪ
mandatorily
ˈmændətərɪlɪ
obligatorily
əˈblɪɡətərɪlɪ
parliamentarily
ˌpɑːləˈmɛntərɪlɪ
perfunctorily
pəˈfʌŋktərɪlɪ
prefatorily
ˈprɛfətərɪlɪ
refractorily
rɪˈfræktərɪlɪ
sedentarily
ˈsɛdəntərɪlɪ
sedimentarily
ˌsedɪˈmentərɪlɪ
solitarily
ˈsɒlɪtərɪlɪ
supplementarily
ˌsʌplɪˈmɛntərɪlɪ
unparliamentarily
ˌʌnpɑːləˈmɛntərɪlɪ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE VOLUNTARILY

volumometer
voluntaries
voluntariness
voluntarism
voluntarist
voluntaristic
voluntary
voluntary agency
Voluntary Aid Detachment
voluntary arrangement
voluntary body
voluntary euthanasia
voluntary helper
voluntary liquidation
voluntary manslaughter
voluntary organization
voluntary redundancy
voluntary retailer
voluntary school
voluntary sector

WORDS THAT END LIKE VOLUNTARILY

arbitrarily
complementarily
contemporarily
contrarily
customarily
evolutionarily
extraordinarily
involuntarily
legendarily
militarily
momentarily
necessarily
ordinarily
primarily
satisfactorily
secondarily
summarily
temporarily
unnecessarily
warily
wearily

Synonyms and antonyms of voluntarily in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «VOLUNTARILY»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «voluntarily» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of voluntarily

Translation of «voluntarily» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF VOLUNTARILY

Find out the translation of voluntarily to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of voluntarily from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «voluntarily» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

自愿地
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

voluntariamente
570 millions of speakers

English

voluntarily
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

स्वेच्छा से
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

طَوْعاً
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

добровольно
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

voluntariamente
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

স্বেচ্ছায়
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

volontairement
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Secara sukarela
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

freiwillig
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

自発的に
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

자발적으로
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Tanpo pekso
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

tình nguyện
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

தானாக முன்வந்து
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

स्वेच्छेने
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

kendi isteğiyle
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

volontariamente
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

dobrowolnie
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

добровільно
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

voluntar
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

εκουσίως
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

vrywillig
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

frivilligt
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

frivillig
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of voluntarily

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «VOLUNTARILY»

The term «voluntarily» is very widely used and occupies the 21.493 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «VOLUNTARILY» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «voluntarily» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «voluntarily» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about voluntarily

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10 QUOTES WITH «VOLUNTARILY»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word voluntarily.
1
Melissa Bank
Before college, I hadn't voluntarily read anything that might be called literature; I didn't think I'd understand it; I never seemed to understand my English teacher's interpretations of what we read.
2
Darren Boyd
Auditions are very strange - you're there to win, to seek approval. They never get easier, but I did realise that you're there voluntarily, after all.
3
Harry Browne
Government is force, pure and simple. There's no way to sugar-coat that. And because government is force, it will attract the worst elements of society - people who want to use government to avoid having to earn their living and to avoid having to persuade others to accept their ideas voluntarily.
4
Thomas Bulfinch
The other classes of which society was composed were, first, freemen, owners of small portions of land, independent, though they sometimes voluntarily became the vassals of their more opulent neighbors, whose power was necessary for their protection.
5
James F. Byrnes
Power intoxicates men. It is never voluntarily surrendered. It must be taken from them.
6
Whittaker Chambers
At issue in the Hiss Case was the question whether this sick society, which we call Western civilization, could in its extremity still cast up a man whose faith in it was so great that he would voluntarily abandon those things which men hold good, including life, to defend it.
7
Hermann Ebbinghaus
The aim of the tests carried on with these syllable series was, by means of repeated audible perusal of the separate series, to so impress them that immediately afterward they could voluntarily be reproduced.
8
Timothy Thomas Fortune
The colored man is in the South to stay there. He will not leave it voluntarily and he cannot be driven out. He had no voice in being carried into the South, but he will have a very loud voice in any attempt to put him out.
9
Hans Frank
I did not destroy the 43 volumes of my diary, which report on all these events and the share I had in them; but of my own accord I handed them voluntarily to the officers of the American Army who arrested me.
10
Jonathan Franzen
I voluntarily inflicted a certain level of insanity on myself.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «VOLUNTARILY»

Discover the use of voluntarily in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to voluntarily and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Voluntarily Childless Men: An Exploration of Identity and Stigma
This study involved a qualitative exploration of voluntarily childless men.
Robert Earl Reed, 2008
2
The Investigation of Voluntarily Childless Married Couples ...
This exploratory study was designed to investigate the impact on marital satisfaction as a result of being voluntarily childless.
Paul R. Harvey, 2008
3
Sourcebook on Contract Law
VOLUNTARILY. ASSUMED. AND. LEGALLY. IMPOSED. OBLIGATIONS. It is important not to think of contract law in isolation. In many areas, rules of the law of contract overlap and complement rules which emanate from another branch of the ...
Oughton, 2000
4
Reports from Committees
OFFICE. Salary- Appointment. Dismissal or Discontinuance. CauK of Discontinuance. T. Bell Roman Catholic - Clerk 787. 26 Jan. 1647 11 May 1851 Died. G. J. Spelman - ditto ditto ... 781. 11 Mar. 1847 26 Dec. 1848 Resigned voluntarily.
Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons, 1861
5
Acts of the Legislative Council of India, of 1860: With an ...
320 37,, Voluntarily causing hurt .. ... : 2I 3;j Voluntarily causing grievous hurt ... ... 32, ib. Punishment for voluntarily causing hurt ... ... 323 ib. Voluntarily causing hurt by dangerous weapons or means... 324 ib. Punishment for voluntarily causing ...
William Theobald, 1861
6
Congressional serial set
Number paroled - 3,400 Finally released 2,042 Returned voluntarily 23 Died while on parole 50 Serving parole - 3 Sentence expired while on parole 20 Went insane while on parole 8 Pard0ned - 2,148 63.17 Returned for violation of parole  ...
United States. Government Printing Office, 1908
7
The Moral Skeptic
On the face of it, it seems to make sense to say that one can voluntarily do things one does not prefer to do, such as going to a friend's funeral or waking up early in the morning. This is because acting voluntarily does not mean that one wants ...
Anita M. Superson Associate Professor of Philosophy University of Kentucky, 2009
8
Textbook on the Indian Penal Code
consequences of his acts' is incorporated in the definition of "voluntarily" in section 39 and thus made applicable in every section where the word is used.1 ( 2) 'Voluntarily' Defined. — Section 39 of the Code has attempted to define the word ...
Krishna Deo Gaur, 2009
9
Seafood and Freshwater Toxins: Pharmacology, Physiology, and ...
... [167] Voluntarily feeding >7.500 [167] Gymnodimine B Intraperitoneal injection 0.800 [173] Spirolide A Intraperitoneal injection 0.037 [170] Gavage (fed) 0.550 [ 170] Gavage (fasted) 0.240 [170] Voluntarily feeding (fed) 1.300 [170] Voluntarily  ...
Luis M. Botana, 2014
10
The Dialogues of Plato: Tr. Into English, with Analyses and ...
And what would you say of instruments : which are the better sort of instruments — those with which a man acts ill voluntarily or involuntarily ? For example, had a man better have a rudder with which he will steer ill, voluntarily or involuntarily ?
Plato, 1874

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «VOLUNTARILY»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term voluntarily is used in the context of the following news items.
1
City asks residents to voluntarily reduce water use
SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Residents near the Rickreall Creek in northwest Oregon are being asked to voluntarily reduce water use to benefit neighbors downstream. «KATU, Aug 15»
2
Accuser voluntarily dismisses Dana Altman from lawsuit stemming …
The accuser in a lawsuit against the University of Oregon and head men's basketball coach Dana Altman has voluntarily decided to dismiss her case against ... «OregonLive.com, Aug 15»
3
Billingham butcher shop closes voluntarily as investigation into E …
A business has voluntarily shut while a new case of E.coli infection who may have ... Robinson's butcher agreed to voluntarily close their Billingham shop last ... «Hartlepool Mail, Jul 15»
4
Edward Kyle Secades voluntarily leaves 'PBB 737' house
Pinoy Big Brother announced on Twitter that voting for eliminations was being stopped on Wednesday, July 22, before it was revealed that Kyle was voluntarily ... «Rappler, Jul 15»
5
Stella & Chewy's voluntarily recalling some dog & cat food products
Stella and Chewy's is voluntarily recalling several of its dog and cat food products nationwide because of worries about possible Listeria contamination. So far ... «14 News WFIE Evansville, Jul 15»
6
BBC urges pensioners to voluntarily give up free licence fee
James Heath, director of policy at the BBC, said: "We will give those eligible households an opportunity to voluntarily pay for a TV licence and so make a ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Jul 15»
7
17.4K Haitians leave Dominican Republic voluntarily, authorities say
So far, what has happened instead are voluntary departures, sponsored by the government until July 6. And as of Thursday about 17,416 had benefited from ... «Local 10, Jun 15»
8
Kenya seeks to voluntarily repatriate 100000 Somalis
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Kenya has set a goal to get 100,000 Somali refugees to return home voluntarily by the end of the year, a government official said ... «Yahoo News, Jun 15»
9
Do better-paid workers equal better business?
Recently, insurance company Aetna voluntarily upped its minimum wage to $16 per hour, giving roughly 6,000 of its lowest-paid employees an average raise of ... «PBS NewsHour, May 15»
10
Group wants Richmond businesses to voluntarily add English to …
WATCH ABOVE: It's been a bit of a hot button issue – Chinese-only signs in Richmond. Now a group of leaders in the community is pushing for change. «Globalnews.ca, May 15»

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