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
Opposite (semantics) has no word that stands in opposition to it (hence the unanswerability of "What is the opposite of platypus?"). Other words are opposable but have an accidental gap in a given language's lexicon. For example, the word "devout" lacks a lexical opposite, but it is fairly easy to conceptualize a parameter of devoutness where "devout" lies at the positive pole with a missing member at the negative pole. Opposites of such words can nevertheless sometimes be formed with the prefixes "un-" or "non-", with varying degrees of naturalness. For example, the word "undevout" appears in Webster's dictionary of 1828, while