voluntaryとは

意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (Received 発音) IPA^(key): /ˈvɒ.lən.tɹi/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈvɑ.lənˌtɛ.ɹi/
• ハイフネーション: vol‧un‧ta‧ry

形容詞

voluntary (comparative more voluntary, superlative most voluntary)

1. Done, given, or acting of one's own free will.
   • September 10, 1828, Nathaniel William Taylor, Sermon delivered in the Chapel of Yale College

     That sin or guilt pertains exclusively to voluntary action is the true principle of orthodoxy.

   • 1726, Pope, Alexander, transl., “Book III”, in The Odyssey, translation of original by Homer, line 345; republished in The Complete Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Boston, New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1902, page 540:

     She fell, to lust a voluntary prey.

2. Done by design or intention; intentional.

   If a man accidentally kills another by lopping a tree, it is not voluntary manslaughter.

3. Working or done without payment.
4. Endowed with the power of willing.
   • 1594, Hooker, Richard, “Book 1”, in Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie‎^[1], London: John Walthoe et al, published 1782, page 5:

     […] God did not work as a necessary, but a voluntary agent, intending before-hand, and decreeing with himself, that which did outwardly proceed from him.

5. Of or relating to voluntarism.

   a voluntary church, in distinction from an established or state church

同意語

• (acting of one's own free will): discretionary, optional, volitional; See also Thesaurus:optional
• (done by design または intention): intentional, willful
• (done without payment): honorary, pro bono, unpaid, unsalaried, unwaged
• (endowed with the power of willing): autonomous, spontaneous

反意語

• (all): involuntary
• (acting of one's own free will): compulsory, obligatory; See also Thesaurus:compulsory
• (done by design または intention): accidental
• (done without payment): paid, salaried

派生語

• voluntarily
• voluntary aided school
• voluntary controlled school
• voluntary manslaughter

関連する語

• voluntarism
• voluntarist