volunteering

1)The act of giving of yourself to help others. Often followed by a rush of happiness at knowing you've made a difference, but sometimes frustration occurs at going unappreciated or unacknowledged.
However, many people volunteer tirelessly anyway, not wanting or needing any validation or applause for what they do.
2)What many high school students are forced into doing in order to graduate. (In many schools you must log a certain number of volunteer hours to recieve your diploma.)

1)-"Where were you Saturday?"
-"I was volunteering... tutoring little kids in math."
-"Wasn't it lame?"
-"Not really. They even sorta looked up to me. It was cool."
-"Okay then..."

2) She was volunteering at the library every weekend to log enough community service hours to graduate.

volunteering by andriod5 October 4, 2005

Volunteering

What you do when you get arrested

Attorney: if you don't want to go on probation, you had better get your 24 hours of volunteering done. I recommend seniors and the latino employment fair.

Volunteering by CAMOBLACKICEXXXXX September 8, 2009

volunteering

people volunteer at church, school or community for many reasons: mostly because they want to help and be involved, but there are other reasons, too.
In some areas, like school and church, there's a significant social pressure to volunteer, it's frowned upon not to do it. So some people do it for that reason - just to keep or gain a good reputation. Some schools require their student's parents to volunteer a certain amount of hours or to pay additional tuition.

Other people volunteer to meet new people, like after relocating from another city.
People volunteer, because they feel the obligation to do it, or the passion.
Others again volunteer to fill a void in their lifes.
There are many reasons to volunteer, and many ways to do so.

People here look strange at you, if you don't volunteer in some way.

Volunteering is fun. You can help others and meet new interesting people at the same time.

I'm divorced and my children are grown up and live on the other side of the country. So I volunteer to have something to do.

volunteering by Sunny1 February 7, 2007

volunteering

An activity motivated by one's own enthusiasm and passion. It can be something that lasts a few minutes or a lifetime, but importantly always involves an individual interacting with the people around them (online or offline).

Wow, that website Urban Dictionary has developed thanks to the enthusiastic acts of many, many people volunteering their time- some great, some not so great.

volunteering by Jo Snow October 17, 2006

volunteering

Something stupid people do to feel better about themselves due to chronic low self-esteem problems as well as religious idiocy.

Mary is an idiot for volunteering because she could be sleeping or getting paid, or doing both at the same time.

volunteering by Andy January 27, 2005

Self-volunteering 

Self-volunteering means to come up with ideas for proplems found in societies or to make life better and implanting them depending on yourself without waiting for groups, associations nor states but for the good maintaining life and general principles.

1 I'll <self-volunteer> cleaning our local water path.
2 I'm a <self-volunteer>.
3 Last year, I <self-volunteered> making a tutorial to help people know the way from city center to the train station.
4 I love helping people a lot I <self-volunteer> all my free time to help make their lives better.
5 I <self-volunteered> making a video in Russian to help tourism in Egypt.

Self-volunteering means to come up with ideas for proplems found in societies or to make life better and implanting them depending on yourself without waiting for groups, associations nor states but for the good maintaining life and general principles.

Self-volunteering by イジプトのカ May 22, 2024

Volunbeering 

Volunteering your time or helping out at a beer festival. Also applies to volunteers helping out at a brewery.

Can't go out, I'm volunbeering at the beer fest today.

Volunbeering by kurtles! September 30, 2010