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  • noun Plural form of greenfield.

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Examples

  • Environmentalists and planners have long pushed for builders to develop vacant urban land before using up new "greenfields" on the outskirts -- a policy that often destroys lots teeming with life in order to protect ecologically dead farmland.

    The New Jungles 2007

  • Another R14 million has been earmarked for a "greenfields" project in Jeppe where another 245 units would be provided.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1996

  • Only "greenfields" investment would be considered for the scheme.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1996

  • Labor's book by conducting a review to decide whether new "greenfields" estates must have fibre, and design a new selection process to manage the various administrative and procurement programs it's administering.

    ZDNet Australia 2010

  • Planning consultant Roz Hansen said she was "disappointed and alarmed" Marysville was being rebuilt and said if starting from a "greenfields" situation it is more than likely such a development would have been rejected.

    Latest News - Yahoo!7 News 2010

  • Planning consultant Roz Hansen said she was "disappointed and alarmed" Marysville was being rebuilt and said if starting from a "greenfields" situation it is more than likely such a development would have been rejected.

    Latest News - Yahoo!7 News 2010

  • Planning consultant Roz Hansen said she was "disappointed and alarmed" Marysville was being rebuilt and said if starting from a "greenfields" situation it is more than likely such a development would have been rejected.

    Latest News - Yahoo!7 News 2010

  • Planning consultant Roz Hansen said she was "disappointed and alarmed" Marysville was being rebuilt and said if starting from a "greenfields" situation it is more than likely such a development would have been rejected.

    Latest News - Yahoo!7 News 2010

  • Planning consultant Roz Hansen said she was "disappointed and alarmed" Marysville was being rebuilt and said if starting from a "greenfields" situation it is more than likely such a development would have been rejected.

    Latest News - Yahoo!7 News 2010

  • Following many decades of hunting pressure, an increased effort to protect geese through "greenfields" programs have helped them approach a population goal set by the U.S.

    The Georgia Straight - News And Views 2009

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