"volunteerism" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Forms: volunteerisms [plural]
Etymology: volunteer + -ism Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|volunteer|ism}} volunteer + -ism Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} volunteerism (countable and uncountable, plural volunteerisms)
  1. (US) Reliance on volunteers to perform a social or educational function. Tags: US, countable, uncountable
    Sense id: en-volunteerism-en-noun-LD611MsT Categories (other): American English, English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -ism Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 80 20 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -ism: 79 21
  2. The tendency to volunteer; the activity of volunteering. Tags: countable, uncountable Translations (tendency to volunteer): vapaaehtoistyö (Finnish), εθελοντισμός (ethelontismós) [masculine] (Greek), önkénteskedés (Hungarian), önkéntesség (Hungarian), voluntariat [neuter] (Romanian), волонтёрство (volontjórstvo) (Russian)
    Sense id: en-volunteerism-en-noun-tOqPEMr5 Disambiguation of 'tendency to volunteer': 7 93
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: avocation, voluntarism

Inflected forms

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