unvolunteer

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verb

To withdraw from volunteering; to revoke one's own voluntary status.

Scrabble 14

Meanings

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

present singular third person unvolunteers · participle present unvolunteering · participle past unvolunteered · past unvolunteered

  1. intransitiveTo withdraw from volunteering; to revoke one's own voluntary status.

    The IRS won't tell you how to “unvolunteer” or how your consent was procured, because they want everyone to be indentured government slaves in violation of the Thirteenth Amendment.

    2020, Family Guardian Fellowship, The Great IRS Hoax, Form #11.302
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    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

Origin

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Chicago

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