Greenward
adv
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Definitions
Adverb
- 1 Toward a green, for example on a golf course.
- 2 Towards an ecologically friendly situation.
"Yet the Bradley administration - moving ever greenward as it bailed itself out from one political corruption crisis to another - continued in theory to commit itself to tougher growth-management and conservationist positions."
Example
More examples"Yet the Bradley administration - moving ever greenward as it bailed itself out from one political corruption crisis to another - continued in theory to commit itself to tougher growth-management and conservationist positions."
Etymology
From green + -ward.
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