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voluntold

voluntold is the simple past and past participle of voluntell.

Meaning of voluntell

Verb

voluntell (third-person singular simple present voluntells, present participle voluntelling, simple past and past participle voluntold)

  1. (humorous, informal, often, transitive) To tell or force (someone) to "volunteer" to do something.
    • I just found out that I was "voluntold" [Marine-speak for a combination of volunteered and told—F[rank] S[chaeffer]] to stay back for a working party.2003 April 24, [anonymous United States Marine Corps corporal], “Combat Iraq”, in Frank Schaeffer, editor, Voices from the Front: Letters Home from America’s Military Family, New York, N.Y.: Carroll...

Noun

voluntold (plural voluntolds)

  1. (humorous, informal, often) A person who has been coerced into acting as a volunteer.

Forms of voluntold

pluralvoluntolds

Questions about voluntold

What does voluntold mean?
Voluntold means a person who has been coerced into acting as a volunteer.
What is voluntold the simple past and past participle of?
Voluntold is the simple past and past participle of voluntell.
What part of speech is voluntold?
Voluntold is a noun.
What is the plural of voluntold?
The plural of voluntold is voluntolds.

Words near voluntold in the dictionary

  1. volunteership
  2. volunteerships
  3. voluntell
  4. voluntelling
  5. voluntells
  6. voluntold
  7. voluntolds
  8. voluntouring
  9. voluntourism
  10. voluntourist
  11. voluntourists

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Adapted from Wiktionary: voluntold (page history and authors); voluntell (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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