voluntary
He voluntarily gave a DNA sample.
The company voluntarily recalled the product in January.
He went voluntarily to the police to explain what he had done.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Freedom to act
(as) free as a birdidiom
agency
at willidiom
autonomist
autonomous
free hand
free pass
free reinidiom
free spirit
free-form
no holds barredidiom
non-autonomous
non-didactic
non-directed
non-restricted
the world is someone's oysteridiom
walk
walk freeidiom
wiggle room
wriggle room

Examples of voluntarily

voluntarily
For when neither party voluntarily comes to him for support, he will offer to mediate an amicable settlement.
These laymen had decisively shaped archaeology since the mid-19th century by voluntarily taking care of monuments as well as by implementing museum education programmes.
Currently, voluntarily inducing infertility seems to be regarded as somewhat antisocial behaviour.
It is unlikely that the majority of low-wage employers will voluntarily provide the same level of employee benefits as found in the primary labour market.
The variety of these personalities and settings are taken on voluntarily, and are co-ordinated with the choices of personalities and settings of every other soul-entity.
A situation is studied where villagers can participate voluntarily in village organization for managing an adjacent forest.
This paper argues that such a marginal role is not justified, given the potential of people to participate voluntarily.
Conventions are at least in theory express agreements, voluntarily entered into between the heads of (or other representatives of) states.
However, the government cannot prevent the social partners making insurance agreements 'voluntarily' or 'privately'.
Furthermore, agents' ability to exit voluntarily social groups strongly signaled their credibility to existing group members where they stayed.
It is a good reason when, but only when, such harm is not voluntarily chosen.
It may be that a person is fully voluntarily choosing to slice off a limb.
The vast majority of incoming clients did not attend the program voluntarily.
The contracting parties voluntarily agree at the constitutional level to be subject to binding constraints at the sub-constitutional level.
Functionings must be endorsed and voluntarily (or freely) chosen, rather than forced; but no hyperactive notion of freedom as control is involved here.
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