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unvolunteering

unvolunteering is the present participle and gerund of unvolunteer.

Meaning of unvolunteer

Verb

unvolunteer (third-person singular simple present unvolunteers, present participle unvolunteering, simple past and past participle unvolunteered)

  1. (intransitive) To withdraw from volunteering; to revoke one's own voluntary status.
    • Which means, in practice, that quite often we expect to unvolunteer whenever we feel like it. If our feelings are hurt, we unvolunteer. We go AWOL at our convenience, and think there should be no consequences.2008, Carl Wells, The Army of God: the Church, page 26

Questions about unvolunteering

What is unvolunteering the present participle and gerund of?
Unvolunteering is the present participle and gerund of unvolunteer.

Words near unvolunteering in the dictionary

  1. unvoluntarily
  2. unvoluntariness
  3. unvoluntary
  4. unvolunteer
  5. unvolunteered
  6. unvolunteering
  7. unvolunteers
  8. unvoluptuous
  9. unvomited
  10. unvoracious
  11. unvotable

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