greenfield

See also: Greenfield

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From green +‎ field.

Noun

greenfield (plural greenfields)

  1. A site, to be used for housing or commerce, whose previous use (if any) was agricultural.

Translations

Adjective

greenfield (not comparable)

  1. (software engineering) Of a completely new development, without the need to integrate with legacy systems, etc.
    a greenfield project
    • 2015, Mikael Lundin, Testing with F#, Packt Publishing Ltd, →ISBN, page 148:
      When you're working in a greenfield project and have a favorable situation of designing a database from the ground up, you have complete control over your database when it comes to integration tests, if you do it correctly.
    • 2025 June 13, “President Trump Approves Historic Partnership between U. S. Steel and Nippon Steel”, in Business Wire‎[1]:
      The NSA provides that approximately $11 billion in new investments will be made by 2028, which includes the initial investment in a greenfield project that would be completed after 2028.
  2. (business) Previously untapped; free for the taking.
    a greenfield market
    a greenfield sales opportunity

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