voluntarism

Examples

• All

• Voluntarism should remain the core of any strategy to increase the volume of organ donations.

  Academic text (1995)

• Social workers can contribute to public education about organ donation and can encourage voluntarism.

  Academic text (1995)

• Well, any reasonable understanding of civic participation has to include the idea of voluntarism.

  Blog text (32)

• Moreover, as an advocate of self-help, he regarded voluntarism to be the only appropriate step to help people in trouble.

  Academic text (1996)

• The answer is by doctors—just through voluntarism, not force.

  Blog text (7)

• In a 1971 op-ed piece for the New York Times, Senator Edward Kennedy wrote: "Although I share with many of my colleagues a deep and abiding respect for the concept of voluntarism in a democratic society, I cannot believe it should be raised above the demands of social justice."

  Academic text (2003)

• But in truth, the president's focus was elsewhere, on the domestic arena—tax cuts, education reform, faith-based voluntarism, energy policy.

  Academic text (2011)

• Many community projects rely on voluntarism to recruit people willing to help without payment.

• His commitment to voluntarism inspired others to join the charity and offer their services freely.

• The success of the event was largely due to the voluntarism of local residents who donated their time.

Synonyms

V

volunteerism

vsvoluntarism

• US

13 3.5

Giving time and help for free to support other people or causes

is the broader principle of acting by free will beyond organized helping

V

voluntaryism

vsvoluntarism

9.9

A belief that people should act and join others freely without being forced, especially by government

is focused more on helping others by free choice rather than on avoiding force

Antonyms

C

coercion

• Offensive

56 6.9

The act of making someone do something by using threats or violence

C

compulsion

14 6.5

Someone forces you to do something

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology