involuntarily

involuntary | American Dictionary

involuntary
adjective
us/ɪnˈvɑl·ənˌter·i/
not done willingly, or not done intentionally:
A sharp tap beneath the knee usually causes an involuntary movement of the lower leg.
The driver of the vehicle was charged with involuntary manslaughter.

involuntary | Business English

involuntary
adjective
uk /ɪnˈvɒləntəri/us
not done by choice, or not done as a result of someone's decision or intention:
Involuntary unemployment means that you suffer a total loss of salary as the result of the loss of employment.
The number of involuntary part-timers - people who couldn't get more hours or find a full-time job - is increasing.

Examples of involuntary

involuntary
This circuit is involved in the facilitation of both voluntary and involuntary movement.
Our model allows the retirement date to be either endogenous (voluntary) or exogenous (involuntary).
Voluntary versus involuntary admission status was noted (yes/no).
Those acts ordinarily regarded as voluntary differ from the involuntary in that they are created with will and power.
The second activity in each comparison we call voluntary, and the first we call involuntary.
Thus, it appears that there is no systematic association between rates of voluntary and involuntary movement.
In that model, cycles of period 2 can emerge in an economy where involuntary unemployment takes place.
Two of the three judges who delivered dissenting verdicts in this contempt case have since been retired, for technically legitimate but involuntary reasons.
Its muscular action is involuntary: it pulls downwards when we inhale and relaxes as we exhale.
Most tests were autonomic, based on the involuntary reactions of the human body to usually painful situations.
It is an essentially involuntary response to how that object is taken to be.
Observers do not agree about the extent to which these effects should be blamed on involuntary villagisation and resettlement.
These parents may involuntary remember the loss of an important attachment figure and reexperience the fright involved in the loss.
Cross-cultural solutions to problems resulting from involuntary childlessness have included such strategies as adoption, finding new partners, and dissolving marriages that do not produce offspring.
The coding scheme was devised to obtain measures of voluntary and involuntary movements.
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