The drug maker Purdue Pharma has agreed [ … ] to settle complaints that it encouraged physicians to overprescribe its painkiller OxyContin.
Sloan, in contrast, all but erased the social importance of the Koshare as mischief makers and satirists, instead presenting only their more serious religious function.
Meaning of maker for the defined word.
Grammatically, this word "maker" is a morpheme, more specifically, a suffixe. It's also a noun, more specifically, a countable noun and an agent noun.