Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

unvolunteer

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: un-vol-un-teer
IPA

14

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

4

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

To withdraw from volunteering; to revoke one's own voluntary status.

Intransitive verb

Example Sentences

"Which means, in practice, that quite often we expect to unvolunteer whenever we feel like it. If our feelings are hurt, we unvolunteer. We go AWOL at our convenience, and think there should be no consequences."
"The IRS won't tell you how to “unvolunteer” or how your consent was procured, because they want everyone to be indentured government slaves in violation of the Thirteenth Amendment."

Etymology

From un- + volunteer.

Word Breakdown

Prefix: un

Usage

Intransitive verb

Inflected Forms

unvolunteers (present, singular) unvolunteering (participle, present) unvolunteered (participle, past) unvolunteered (past)

Questions

What does unvolunteer mean?: To withdraw from volunteering; to revoke one's own voluntary status.
Where does unvolunteer come from?: From un- + volunteer.

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