volunteer army

noun

1. a military force composed entirely of enlistees.

Example Sentences

In Burkina Faso, a so-called "volunteer" army, launched in 2020 before the military takeover, is one strategy being used to fight militants.

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Farage said Bull's role would be to "inspire" the party's base and "give leadership to that volunteer army out there".

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The large medical bus is operated by Ukraine's Volunteer Army Medical Battalion – known as the Hospitallers.

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“We had a vendor lined up to print petitions and had assembled a volunteer army and a paid canvass operation that was set to go,” the Democrat’s former chief aide, Melissa DeRosa, writes in her political memoir, “What’s Left Unsaid: My Life at the Center of Power, Politics and Crisis.”

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The same dynamic played out in the wake of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, which saw a volunteer army of pro-Ukraine hackers claim credit for numerous attacks on Russian websites and other online services.

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