Greenward

adv

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Definitions

Adverb
  1. 1
    Toward a green, for example on a golf course.
  2. 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

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"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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