The phrase "almost voluntary" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a situation or action that is not entirely mandatory but has elements of choice or consent involved.
Example: "The participation in the survey was almost voluntary, as there were no penalties for opting out."
Alternatives: "nearly optional" or "partially voluntary".
Mutism (inability to talk), extreme compliance, and absence of almost all voluntary actions are also common.
Tocqueville's decision to come to America was almost a voluntary version of the kind of enforced exile that the tsar was imposing at this time on "troublesome" Russians.
Strokes that occur in the brainstem may cause profound deficits, including locked-in syndrome, in which cognitive, emotional and linguistic abilities remain intact but all or almost all voluntary motor abilities are lost.
After this episode, he exhibited almost no voluntary movement of his extremities due to spastic quadriplegia.
Half of them exhibited almost no voluntary movement of their extremities.
The parkinsonian symptoms were severe and stable throughout the recording period, with almost no voluntary movements or spontaneous activity in any body part (mean±SD: monkey A: 45.75±3.37, monkey N: 46.58±2.71, scale of 0 (asymptomatic) to 53 (maximal symptoms)).
As such, research ethics review, oversight and monitoring remain among the small handful of essential research related activities that are conducted on an almost entirely voluntary basis.
But analysts said this transition was almost certainly less voluntary, at least for Mr. Weitzen.
At the time, the agency stressed that any future quarantine within the United States would "almost always be voluntary, with incentives to cooperate".
Johnston Press is looking to make the staff cuts, part of a company wide push to save almost £5m, through voluntary redundancies.
