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volunteer force

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volunteer
noun[C]
uk /ˌvɒl.ənˈtɪər/ us /ˌvɑː.lənˈtɪr/
a person who does something, especially helping other people, willingly and without being forced or paid to ...
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force
noun
uk /fɔːs/ us /fɔːrs/
physical, especially violent, strength ...
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Examples of volunteer force


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The whole essence of a territorial volunteerforce is that it springs from a locality.
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A volunteerforce is what is needed in the national effort.
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We shall not raise an armed volunteerforce.
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They also tried to raise a volunteerforce.
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Give this great volunteerforce the best professional advisers, and let there be sufficient of them.
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Setting up a new emergency volunteerforce could prove costly.
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What do we mean when we talk about a volunteerforce of national units?
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Surely, when we have a volunteerforce people choose to serve under certain conditions.
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Why should we not reactivate a national volunteerforce on home defence?
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In my view, we must also do everything possible to get a larger volunteerforce.
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I turn now to why, in the main, it should be a volunteerforce.
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He diligently trained them, and at the first sight of battle the entire volunteerforce disintegrated.
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In a conscript army much of the force is engaged either in training or being trained and it is nothing like equivalent to a much smaller volunteerforce.
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They are, in fact, a volunteerforce made up of people from different nations who have to be mercenaries because they have to be paid.
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The army's task is to weld together a regular and a volunteerforce; and that is not easy.
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Then we had the community development project, the educational priority areas, the young volunteer force, the neighbourhood schemes, the urban guideline studies and the inner area studies.
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While in terms of money one's volunteerforce is much more expensive, it is not more expensive in terms of manpower or equipment.
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A mobile emergency volunteerforce is needed.
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