(voluntary effort)

  • 1effort — noun 1 physical/mental energy needed to do sth ADJECTIVE ▪ considerable ▪ hard ▪ It took a whole day of hard effort to knock down the wall. ▪ constant, sustained ▪ …

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  • 2Voluntary Aid Detachment — The Voluntary Aid Detachment (VAD) was a voluntary organisation providing auxiliary nursing services, mainly in hospitals, in the United Kingdom and various other countries in the British Empire. The organisation s most important period of… …

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  • 3voluntary — adj. VERBS ▪ be ▪ remain ADVERB ▪ completely, entirely, purely, strictly ▪ T …

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  • 4effort restriction — a type of input control used as a management tool whereby the amount of fishing effort expended by fishers in a particular fishery is restricted by law or voluntary agreement among fishers who jointly exploited fishery resource. In practice, as… …

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  • 5voluntary overexertion — Conscious and intentional overexertion or a reckless disregard of consequences likely to ensue from great physical effort. Rustin v Standard Life & Acci. Ins. Co. 58 Neb 792, 79 NW 712 …

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  • 6maximal voluntary ventilation — maximum voluntary ventilation (MVV) the greatest volume of gas that can be breathed per minute by voluntary effort. Called also maximal breathing capacity …

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  • 7Right of Voluntary Association — • Any group of individuals freely united for the pursuit of a common end Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. Right of Voluntary Association     Right of Voluntary Association …

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  • 8National Voluntary Organizations Active in Disaster — Motto Communication, Coordination, Collaboration, and Cooperation Formation 1970 Type NGO Headquarters Washington, DC Region served …

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  • 9Women’s Royal Voluntary Service — Le WRVS (anciennement Women’s Royal Voluntary Service, Service volontaire royal féminin, connu jusqu en 1966 sous le nom de Women s Voluntary Service, Service volontaire féminin) est un organisme bénévole dont l objectif est d aider les gens dans …

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  • 10social service — social service, adj. organized welfare efforts carried on under professional auspices by trained personnel. [1850 55] * * * Introduction also called  welfare service,  or  social work,         any of numerous publicly or privately provided… …

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