voluntary
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3.9
- adjective
- /ˈvɑːlənˌtɛri/
- Specialized
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voluntario
- Participation in the survey is completely voluntary, so you can choose whether or not to take part.
- voluntary control
- voluntary movement
- voluntary action
Carnatus maintains that there is some voluntary motion of the mind.
- Carnatus maintains that there is some voluntary motion of the mind.
- I mean, what you're describing is like voluntary personal growth and transformation.
- And that way voluntary transactions create wealth.
- The exercise of voluntary choice is the highest ideal.
- Willpower is built through voluntary acts of quote UN quote suffering.
- You're creating these small habits, or you're creating these small voluntary actions that turn into habits.
- And I'm trying to build a repertoire for how to gain voluntary compliance.
- And then beyond that, there are voluntary prayers that are done throughout the day as well.
- You could say that they're neither involuntary nor voluntary.
- If it's playful, if it's consensual, if it's voluntary.
- I've done, I've been a cab driver, I've been a busboy, I've tended bar, but those things were shorter term and and voluntary while I was doing artistic stuff.
Examples
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This is all norms and voluntary action, correct?
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I mean, what you're describing is like voluntary personal growth and transformation.
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The exercise of voluntary choice is the highest ideal.
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OK, so this is voluntary action, right?
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Often times we'll say something is voluntary when we indeed chose it.
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And then beyond that, there are voluntary prayers that are done throughout the day as well.
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So again, capitalism is built on free exchange, built on voluntary action, right self ownership.
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So what we realize is at some point voluntary efforts, they, they'll get you pretty far.
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If human beings do so, it must be an act of responsibility, of voluntary self-restraint.
Academic text (1997) -
At least subjectively, there is a voluntary element in the way these soldiers experience their compulsory army service.
Academic text (1994)
Synonyms
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4.9
Happens naturally without pressure or effort
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Done by a person as a conscious choice or decision
Antonyms
Compounds
How Voluntary
Surface Forms
Morphology
voluntary = volunt + ary
Although the form follows a regular adjectival pattern (root + -ary), the root itself is not a standalone English word and the sense 'controlled by conscious will' is derived from a nontransparent combining form.
Etymology
Voluntary comes from the Latin voluntas 'will', so a voluntary action or muscle is one you control by your own 'will' rather than something that happens automatically.