Volunhearing

The passive act of being the recipient of a task that has been voluntold.

Jill: Who would like to paint the fense? No one? Allen, you do it.

Sarah: Allen you've just been voluntold.

Britney: Allen, thanks for volunhearing.

by Warhawk09 September 7, 2013

Voluntary editors

People who suck because they don't let you publish your great definitions.

Random guy: "I'm one of those voluntary editors on Urban Dictionary!"
Random guy 2: "Well you suck then!"

by Pls_let_me_use_a_name September 28, 2018

voluntavery

-noun

1. uncompensated labor in the guise of volunteerism

2. mandatory volunteer work required for the successful completion of certain benchmarks in post-secondary school

3. indentured servitude that graduate professional students are subject to every semester

see also: clinicals, interns

Student 1: "So, what are you doing this summer?"

Student 2: "Being peddled into voluntavery at the occupational therapy department at the Medical Center."

by L.L. Mall October 12, 2019

Voluntary trauma

When you get to choose your trauma, it's voluntary. You get to choose what type, when and why.

Also when you voluntarily decide to trauma dump on people, you can call that voluntary trauma.

Jess: Yoo let's go to the cemetery by the school and get some voluntary trauma!
Pradhi: Sure! I've never gotten to pick my trauma before!

by pringlesking24! September 17, 2021

voluntary mandatory

Anything needed to be done is voluntary but becomes mandatory if you want to do something else.

Vaccinations for Covid are voluntary but if you wish to be employed, it is voluntary mandatory that you have to be vaccinated.

by bevanpayne September 29, 2021

voluntary canary

A voluntary canary is someone who makes a sacrifice, often publicly, in support of a personal or professional value yet stays in the situation instead of leaving. Like a canary in a coal mine, s/he is exposed to whatever happens. Unlike the canary, s/he does it voluntarily. And, it happens to rhyme.

Berkeley's Earth & Atmospheric Science Department canceled a lecture because of the invited scientist's political views. David Romps resigned from his chairmanship in protest but stayed at the school. He became a voluntary canary! We need more profs like that. Let's see if he survives in Berkeley's woke academic coal mine.

by Hugo de Naranja October 19, 2021

Nolunteer

Someone who does a task even though they did not want to. From the latin nolo (not want, be unwilling). The opposite of a volunteer.

Tom was a nolunteer for the latin sporcle.

by Cicerno. March 9, 2022