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Greenpeace en · PROPN

Etymology

From green + peace.

Meanings

  1. An international, direct-action environmental organization.
    • Greenpeace had reason to suspect that recent tests had opened a crack in the atoll, causing a serious radiation leak. 1990, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists:
    • One particularly exciting sequence shows how members of Greenpeace, a Canadian conservation group, defend whales fleeing from a huge Soviet whaler. 1975, Film news:
    • Behind it was a typically bearded, casually dressed Greenpeace type. 1998, Robert I. Eaton, Thrust in Your Sickle But Watch Your Fingers, page 60:
    • But hardcore Greenpeace types never listen to reason. 1995, Joseph John Phillips, Operation Elbow Room, page 30:
    • You remember: the Greenpeace dropout who played chicken with the Soviet Navy. 2004, Matt Ruff, Sewer, Gas and Electric: The Public Works Trilogy, page 222:
    • Russian lawmakers backed a sweeping amnesty law Wednesday that could see jailed members of the Pussy Riot punk protest band released early and arrested Greenpeace activists avoiding prison, the state-run RIA Novosti news agency reported. 2013 December 18, CNN Staff, “Russia amnesty could free Pussy Riot, benefit Greenpeace members”, in CNN:
    • I mean it's certainly less polemical than having some Greenpeace types confront these hunters with Zodiacs and boycotts and insults in the media. 2002, Jim Nollman, The Beluga Café: My Strange Adventure With Art, Music, and Whales:
    • Since its founding in 1970, Greenpeace has borne witness against environmental injustice through numerous non-violent direct actions. 1983, Vegetarian Times:
    • Before the doors were opened the security guards were warned to look out for "Greenpeace types," not smartly dressed business women. 1989, Tom Rose, Freeing the Whales: How the Media Created the World's Greatest Non-Event, page 82:
    • A typical Greenpeace action in 1989 saw the organization in alliance with Spanish longline fishermen, angry that the continued use of driftnets was threatening their own livelihoods. 1991, Xavier Pastor, The Mediterranean, page 128:
    • He's an eco-activist maverick, with a Greenpeace mentality when it comes to protecting his little feathered friends. 2012, Stephen M. Ringler, Fled to Mexico: If No One Knows They Were There Then It Didn't Happen, page 191:

Deriveds

Greenpeacer

Translations (4)

ru Гринпи́с (environmental organization) · ja グリーンピース (environmental organization) · cmn 綠色和平 /绿色和平 (environmental organization) · fi Greenpeace (environmental organization)