greenfield
See also: Greenfield
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]greenfield (plural greenfields)
- A site, to be used for housing or commerce, whose previous use (if any) was agricultural
Translations
[edit]previously agricultural site for development
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Adjective
[edit]greenfield (not comparable)
- (software engineering) Being 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.
- (business) Previously untapped; free for the taking.
- a greenfield market
- a greenfield sales opportunity