Boiler room (business) protection. A fictional "boiler room" brokerage firm was dramatized in the 2000 film "Boiler Room", and the play and film "Glengarry Glen Ross" show a similar boiler room operation selling real estate. The 2013 film "The Wolf of Wall Street", starring Leonardo DiCaprio, also involves a boiler-room investment business and is based on the memoir of convicted penny stock fraudster, Jordan Belfort. A 2010 episode of the television series "White Collar" depicted fictional conman Neal Caffrey infiltrating a group of corrupt brokers also peddling inflated penny stocks. Boiler room (business) In business, the term boiler room refers to an outbound
Compound (linguistics) "foot" and "path"—or they may belong to different parts of speech, as in the case of the English word "blackbird", composed of the adjective "black" and the noun "bird". With very few exceptions, English compound words are stressed on their first component stem. The process occurs readily in other Germanic languages for different reasons. Words can be concatenated both to mean the same as the sum of two words (e.g. "Pressekonferenz"—German for press conference) or where an adjective and noun are compounded (e.g. "hvidvinsglas"—Danish for white wine glass). The addition of affix morphemes to words (such as suffixes or prefixes,