volunteer for (something)
volunteer for (something)
To choose or offer to assume or undertake some position, role, or duty without being asked, directed, or required to do so. I know you didn't volunteer for this responsibility, but you've done an admirable job filling in after Jack left the company. She volunteered for the role, not realizing how much additional work it entailed.
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Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
volunteer as something
to submit oneself as a person ready or willing to do something. Would you be willing to volunteer as a marcher? I will volunteer as a helper in the hospital.
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volunteer for something
1. to submit oneself for some task without being asked. Ivolunteered for the job. I didn't volunteer for this.
2. to work as an unpaid volunteer for a charity, etc. On Sundays she volunteers as a receptionist at the hospital.
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McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.
- a bounden duty
- bounden
- bounden duty
- do (one's) duty
- do one's duty
- jump in feet first
- jump in with both feet
- jump in with both feet, to
- dive in
- dive in with both feet