How to Use greenfield in a Sentence

greenfield

noun
  • The new plant will be built on a greenfield site in the Lordstown area.
    — Olivera Perkins, cleveland, 5 Dec. 2019
  • The greenfield sites, where nothing’s been built before, not so much.
    — Richard Webner, San Antonio Express-News, 10 Aug. 2022
  • If this is a greenfield development, try to make your apps cloud-native.
    — Expert Panel®, Forbes, 3 Mar. 2021
  • One, Orestad, lies on the outskirts of the capital and was built on greenfields near its airport.
    — Martin Selsoe Sorensen, New York Times, 22 Feb. 2017
  • But going from brownfields to greenfields is nothing other cities haven't already done.
    — James Bruggers, The Courier-Journal, 25 Dec. 2017
  • Copper supply now looks likely to fall far short of demand over the next decade—unless big new greenfield projects are brought online.
    — Megha Mandavia, wsj.com, 5 May 2023
  • There is parking for five helicopters on Huka’s 18-acre greenfield site next door.
    — Kendall Hill, Travel + Leisure, 15 May 2025
  • The bank has also pledged not to provide financial services for new offshore oil and gas projects in the Arctic or new greenfield oil sands projects.
    — Adrian Croft, Fortune, 14 Nov. 2019
  • Its production capacity may be replaced by a new one on a greenfield site in an industrial park in some suburb.
    — Edward Lotterman, Twin Cities, 4 Aug. 2024
  • By contrast, Mexico does not display a high level of greenfield investment.
    — Nathaniel Parish Flannery, Forbes, 8 Mar. 2023
  • Over the last decade, Chinese investors have spent more than $10 billion on greenfield projects in the United States.
    — Don Lee, latimes.com, 1 July 2019
  • The data for the first quarter of this year shows that both the M&A market and greenfield announcements (new project constructions) are at record lows.
    — Lori Ann Larocco, CNBC, 19 June 2025
  • Digital services can grow explosively across the greenfield that is the developing world.
    — Ruchir Sharma, Foreign Affairs, 20 Apr. 2021
  • The permitting and building of a new greenfield refinery would take at least a decade; major expansions take several years from cradle to startup.
    — David Blackmon, Forbes, 15 June 2022
  • The largest greenfield mining bets will come later, once security and infrastructure improve.
    — Ariel Cohen, Forbes.com, 20 May 2026
  • Given the scale and timing of these contracts, the analyst expects them to be placed across Nebius’ new greenfield data center locations.
    — Tipranks.com Staff, CNBC, 5 Apr. 2026
  • The company will consider existing buildings and greenfield sites of 100 acres.
    — Laura Stevens, WSJ, 7 Sep. 2017
  • Fraudsters look at mobile banking as a wide open greenfield of possibility, particularly as there are more mobile ways to move money.
    — Dan Weil, WSJ, 18 Mar. 2018
  • Known for its poultry slaughterhouses, Gainesville is now a manufacturing hub where startups can find engineers and greenfield sites.
    — Patrik Jonsson, Christian Science Monitor, 3 June 2025
  • Monaldi has been keeping an eye out for investments in greenfields—projects involving entirely new infrastructure, which are costlier and require a commitment over the long term.
    — Stephania Taladrid, New Yorker, 17 June 2026
  • And, for the first time since 2008, the value of Chinese greenfield investments have exceeded that of M&A flows.
    — Mary Hui, Quartz, 10 May 2023
  • The largest greenfield system in place is Rakuten in Japan, which has over 3 million users and has graduated from 4G to 5G services.
    — Thomas Duesterberg, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2021
  • The health fund also invests in greenfield and brownfield projects unlike standard private equity funds and so the timing of the deployment of capital is less predictable, Abraaj said.
    — Arif Sharif, Bloomberg.com, 2 Mar. 2018
  • In addition to existing buildings, the company will also consider a greenfield site of 100 acres, or a combination of the two.
    — cleveland.com, 8 Sep. 2017
  • The projects backed by Resilient Melbourne include a greenfield site for about 5,000 homes led by developer Mirvac.
    — Michael Taylor, The Christian Science Monitor, 11 July 2018
  • The most sensible near-term opportunities are therefore not necessarily giant greenfield projects.
    — Ariel Cohen, Forbes.com, 20 May 2026
  • Of course, not every organization operates in a greenfield environment.
    — Pradeep Govindasamy, Forbes.com, 15 Aug. 2025
  • Proceeds will be used to accelerate the construction of a greenfield copper refining plant in Gujarat, Adani’s home state in western India.
    — Jonathan Burgos, Forbes, 27 June 2022
  • The team recommended philanthropic support for new grocery stores and limiting suburban sprawl by taxing large, new homes and greenfield development beyond the city with the revenue to be used to deal with urban blight.
    — Peter Krouse, cleveland, 30 Oct. 2019
  • Noida is a greenfield airport under construction by a subsidiary of Switzerland’s Zurich Airport through a public-private partnership.
    — Kevin Rozario, Forbes.com, 9 May 2025

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