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Greenpeace

Greenpeace

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A worldwide group that works to protect nature and stop pollution
  • proper noun
  • /ˈɡriːnpiːs/
: Greenpeace
  • Many volunteers from Greenpeace traveled to the island to help clean up the oil spill.
  • Greenpeace activists
  • environmental group Greenpeace
  • organizations such as Greenpeace

He was a Co founder of Greenpeace for crying out loud.

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Examples

  • Five members of Greenpeace have handcuffed themselves in a circle around the drilling pipe.

    Fiction book (1998)

  • Grace: You know you donate 300 grand a year to Greenpeace.

    Fiction book (1998)

  • But the peace part of Greenpeace was to end nuclear war or the threat of nuclear war.

  • Yeah, did you talk to those Greenpeace people yet?

    Guilty As Charged (1991)

  • You give $20 to Greenpeace thinking you change the world.

    Swordfish (2001)

  • Introduce the students to several organizations, such as Greenpeace, and have them write letters expressing their opinions and concerns.

    Academic text (2010)

  • What we were hearing from environmental advocates like Greenpeace and what we were hearing from companies was often diametrically opposed.

    Academic text (1997)

  • I mean, Greenpeace is out there hanging off bridges and chaining themselves to submarines!

    Fiction book (1999)

  • Among other worrying signs, Greenpeace highlighted the fact that Japan has started increasing its stockpiles of plutonium.

    Academic text (2003)

  • Harry's eyes move to a group of Greenpeace protesters across the rig, being held back by Stamper Oil security guards.

    Fiction book (1998)

Surface Forms

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Morphology

Greenpeace = green + peace (semi-transparent) = green + peace

The components 'green' and 'peace' transparently signal environmental and peaceful themes, but as a proper name the specific reference to an international campaigning organization is not fully derivable.

Etymology

Greenpeace comes from two simple English words: green meaning 'nature' or 'the environment' and peace meaning 'no war' or 'no violence', because it began as a non‑violent movement to protect nature. So Greenpeace now means the international group that works to save the environment by campaigning in a peaceful way.