Usually means: Chosen freely without external pressure.
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We found 42 dictionaries that define the word voluntary:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. voluntary: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. voluntary: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. voluntary: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. voluntary: Collins English Dictionary
  5. voluntary: Vocabulary.com
  6. Voluntary, voluntary, voluntary: Wordnik
  7. voluntary: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. voluntary: Wiktionary
  9. voluntary: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. voluntary: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. voluntary: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. voluntary: Dictionary.com
  13. voluntary: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. voluntary: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Voluntary (disambiguation), Voluntary (music), Voluntary: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Voluntary: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. voluntary: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. voluntary: Rhymezone
  19. voluntary: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. voluntary: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. voluntary: Free Dictionary
  22. voluntary: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. voluntary: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary (No longer online)

Business (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. THE 'LECTRIC LAW LIBRARY'S REFERENCE ROOM (No longer online)
  2. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  3. Voluntary: A DICTIONARY OF LAW (1893)
  4. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  5. voluntary: Legal dictionary
  6. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. voluntary: Encyclopedia

Medicine (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Voluntary: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. voluntary: Medical dictionary
  5. Voluntary: Drug Medical Dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. voluntary: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Voluntary: Catholic Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. voluntary: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See voluntaries as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Done, given, or acting of one's own free will.
adjective:  Done by design or intention; intentional.
adjective:  Working or done without payment.
adjective:  Endowed with the power of willing.
adjective:  Of or relating to voluntarism.
adverb:  (obsolete) Voluntarily.
noun:  (music) A short piece of music, often having improvisation, played on a solo instrument.
noun:  A volunteer.
noun:  A supporter of voluntarism; a voluntarist.

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