It's a greenfield project so we're building everything from scratch, including the scratch.
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Greenfield
//ˈɡɹinfild//
Synonyms for "greenfield" (2 found)
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Noun(1 words)
Related words (1)
Noun(1 words)
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Translations
5 translations across 4 languages.
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 格林菲爾德 /格林菲尔德 name (surname)
Māori
1 entries- papa ururua noun (previously agricultural site for development)
Polish
2 entries- Greenfield name (surname)
- teren niezagospodarowany noun (previously agricultural site for development)
Welsh
1 entries- cae glas noun (previously agricultural site for development)
Sample sentences
8 total sentences available.
greenfield development
Source: wiktionary
In 2007 Mr Gilbert [Dan Gilbert] made the then remarkable decision to move Quicken Loans’ suburban headquarters downtown. Mr Gilbert says that the initial thinking was humdrum—the firm’s lease was expiring, the business was growing, and he didn’t want to build a new greenfield campus. But he also had a bigger idea in mind. “We needed to keep young people here [in Michigan] and make sure they weren’t going to places like Chicago,” he says. “We knew that young people did not want to work in suburbs.”
Source: wiktionary
a greenfield project
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