greenfield
/ˈɡrinˌfild/
adjective
- Describing land that has never been built on before, often used for new development projects.
- Environmental groups are protesting the construction of a mall on greenfield farmland.
- Greenfield developments are often preferred because they avoid the costs of demolishing old buildings.
- The company plans to build a new factory on a greenfield site outside the city.
- Describing a project or business that starts from scratch, without using existing systems or infrastructure.
- They chose a greenfield approach for the software, ignoring the old codebase entirely.
- A greenfield investment means building new facilities rather than buying existing ones.
- The startup is a greenfield project, so the team can design everything from the ground up.
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