Definition of "greenfield" []

• A piece of usually semirural property that is undeveloped except for agricultural use, especially one considered as a site for expanding urban development. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "FDI can take several forms, including mergers and acquisitions, building new facilities from scratch as part of what are known as greenfield investments, reinvesting profits earned from overseas operations and making loans from the parent company to overseas operations."
• "So even though Candelas is going on never-been-developed land - what the planning industry considers a "greenfield" - Hartman argues that it could be considered urban infill, "because it is inside what is generally considered to be the metropolitan area of Denver.""
• "In 2011, according to the Financial Times fDi Markets database, BRIC companies created 13,072 new jobs in America through so-called "greenfield" investments alone -- ground-up construction of new facilities or plants."