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Etymology

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un- +‎ volunteer

Verb

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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.
    • 2008, Carl Wells, The Army of God: the Church, page 26:
      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.
    • 2020, Family Guardian Fellowship, The Great IRS Hoax, Form #11.302:
      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.