Difference between Unpaid and Voluntary

What is the difference between Unpaid and Voluntary?

Unpaid as an adjective is not paid for. while Voluntary as an adjective is done, given, or acting of one's own free will.

Unpaid

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Not paid for.

Example sentence: Although attracted by the humanities, I had chosen medicine as a career, seduced by the image of the 'man in white' dispensing care and solace to the suffering. But science was lurking around the corner, in the form of an unpaid student assistantship in the laboratory of physiology.

Voluntary

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Done, given, or acting of one's own free will.Working or done without payment.

Example sentence: Truly it is an evil to be full of faults; but it is a still greater evil to be full of them and to be unwilling to recognize them, since that is to add the further fault of a voluntary illusion.

We hope you now know whether to use Unpaid or Voluntary in your sentence.

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