Greenpeace

English

Etymology

From green +‎ peace.

Proper noun

Greenpeace

1. An international, direct-action environmental organization.
   • 1975, Film news:

     One particularly exciting sequence shows how members of Greenpeace, a Canadian conservation group, defend whales fleeing from a huge Soviet whaler.

   • 1983, Vegetarian Times:

     Since its founding in 1970, Greenpeace has borne witness against environmental injustice through numerous non-violent direct actions.

   • 1989, Tom Rose, Freeing the Whales: How the Media Created the World's Greatest Non-Event, page 82:

     Before the doors were opened the security guards were warned to look out for "Greenpeace types," not smartly dressed business women.

   • 1990, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists:

     Greenpeace had reason to suspect that recent tests had opened a crack in the atoll, causing a serious radiation leak.

   • 1991, Xavier Pastor, The Mediterranean, page 128:

     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.

   • 1995, Joseph John Phillips, Operation Elbow Room, page 30:

     But hardcore Greenpeace types never listen to reason.

   • 1998, Robert I. Eaton, Thrust in Your Sickle But Watch Your Fingers, page 60:

     Behind it was a typically bearded, casually dressed Greenpeace type.

   • 2002, Jim Nollman, The Beluga Café: My Strange Adventure With Art, Music, and Whales:

     I mean it's certainly less polemical than having some Greenpeace types confront these hunters with Zodiacs and boycotts and insults in the media.

   • 2004, Matt Ruff, Sewer, Gas and Electric: The Public Works Trilogy, page 222:

     You remember: the Greenpeace dropout who played chicken with the Soviet Navy.

   • 2012, Stephen M. Ringler, Fled to Mexico: If No One Knows They Were There Then It Didn't Happen, page 191:

     He's an eco-activist maverick, with a Greenpeace mentality when it comes to protecting his little feathered friends.

Derived terms

• Greenpeacer

Translations

environmental organization

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 綠色和平／绿色和平 (zh) (Lǜsèhépíng)

• Finnish: Greenpeace
• Japanese: グリーンピース (Gurīnpīsu)
• Russian: Гринпи́с m (Grinpís)

Further reading

• “Greenpeace”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• “Greenpeace” (US) / “Greenpeace” (UK) in Macmillan English Dictionary.
• “Greenpeace”, in Collins English Dictionary.