civilian volunteer

collocation in English

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civilian
adjective
uk
/sɪˈvɪl.jən/us
/səˈvɪl.jən/
relating to a person who is not a member of the police or the ...
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volunteer
noun[C]
uk
/ˌvɒl.ənˈtɪər/us
/ˌvɑː.lənˈtɪr/
a person who does something, especially helping other people, willingly and without being forced or paid to ...
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(Definition ofcivilianandvolunteerfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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The staffing of police stations by civilian volunteers is a result of local community initiatives between the police, the civilian volunteers, andcivilianvolunteerorganisations.
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It does not apply to acivilianvolunteerwho goes to a drill for an hour a week and who can resign at a month's notice if he wishes.
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Undaunted, he reached the frontline with his bicycle and managed to serve as an unpaid, unregistered, fully non-regulationcivilianvolunteerattached to several units.
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We assume that civilian volunteers can bring their skills smoothly into the military, although their military tasks are often very different from their previous tasks.
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The body which will be responsible for those civilian volunteers is despondent about the merits of the scheme which is before us.
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That is the question, civilian volunteers and recruiting.
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There are, again, the civilian volunteers—too few of them but most publicspirited—the wardens, rescue workers, firemen and the rest.
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I also pay tribute to the farmers who lent their bulldozers, the fishermen and other civilian volunteers.
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But volunteers or not, these men were employed on the same work as the civilian volunteers.
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Our present plans aim at getting 30,000 civilian volunteers of whom we hope that over half will do full-time paid service if war should unfortunately come.
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The decision not to treat the new police authorities like local authorities so that they could hold personal accident insurance for civilian volunteers has been an unfortunate oversight.
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We understand that it is to consist mainly of civilian volunteers, but we should like to know rather more about the composition and organisation of that force.
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Army troops, police and civilian volunteers were deployed to rescue victims.
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All of its members, from the cadets themselves to the officers and the support committees are civilian volunteers.
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The groups fighters are a mix of military defectors and civilian volunteers.
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Civilian volunteers were, however, still permitted to augment the band's membership.
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It is composed of civilian volunteers who give some of their time to train and in major emergencies act as volunteer disaster workers.
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Soon the soldiers were joined by a number of civilian volunteers, helping to dig the trenches.
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