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🆕 A new project 🏞️ Unused land 🌱 Not developed
greenfield

greenfield

1 5.6
A new project started from scratch without existing buildings or equipment
  • noun
  • /ˈɡriːnˌfɪld/
  • Jargon
translation icon : proyecto virgen
  • As motorways and tunnels increasingly link Britain to the European mainland, and as the European motorway and high-speed rail links proliferate, it is hardly surprising that entrepreneurs look to newly accessible greenfield sites as does the USA in its search for access to the new, post-1992 single European market.

And so it was a wide open talk about a Greenfield.

Examples

  • And we've concluded we clearly aren't going to go this alone in a greenfield build.

    Blog text (11)

  • Because of the time taken for businesses to develop in greenfield developments, it may be possible to incentivize business development.

    Academic text (2013)

  • High-performance organizations are sometimes developed by creating new or "greenfield" enterprises, as was the case with the Saturn division of General Motors, or they may result from the transformation of older companies, as happened with Xerox and some Ford and General Motors plants.

    Academic text (1994)

  • The era of cheap and easy-to-produce hydrocarbons has come to an end in Russia, as new greenfield projects will be implemented in Russia's East Siberia, the Far East, and in the Arctic in scarcely populated regions with no infrastructure and extremely difficult geological and climatic conditions.

    Academic text (2010)

  • The company decided to invest in a greenfield project, allowing them to create everything from the ground up.

  • Developing a new software platform as a greenfield initiative gave the team the freedom to innovate without limitations.

  • The city council approved a greenfield investment to build a new shopping center, which would boost local employment.

Synonyms

from the ground up
vsgreenfield
24 3.7

To build something completely from the very beginning

is done without limits from prior work or existing infrastructure

Antonyms

brownfield
  • Specialized
6.5

Relating to reusing previously developed land or buildings in cities

How New

greenfield
  • Jargon
1 5.6

Surface Forms

greenfield singular
greenfields plural

Etymology

Greenfield comes from the words green and field, which mean 'open land'. A helpful way to remember the business use is to imagine starting a factory on an empty field — a greenfield project is a new initiative started 'from scratch' with no old systems.