volun-told
adjEtymology
Blend of voluntary + told
Definitions
Nominally voluntary but understood to be an order.
- Yet military life includes times when requests, though not explicit, are understood as orders, says Michael Weinstein, a former U.S. military lawyer and founder of MRFF. The U.S. military word for it, he notes, is “volun-told.”
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- antonymvoluntary
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