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
• In other words: Why fight over a quarter of the market when the rest is greenfield?
  — By jonathan Vanian, Fortune, 19 July 2019
• The greenfield sites, where nothing’s been built before, not so much.
  — Richard Webner, San Antonio Express-News, 10 Aug. 2022
• 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
• 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
• 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
• If this is a greenfield development, try to make your apps cloud-native.
  — Expert Panel®, Forbes, 3 Mar. 2021
• 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 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
• 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
• But going from brownfields to greenfields is nothing other cities haven't already done.
  — James Bruggers, The Courier-Journal, 25 Dec. 2017
• Creating greenfield projects is bound to result in delays.
  — Sangeeta Tanwar, Quartz India, 17 Sep. 2019
• 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
• Last year, companies spent $1.4 billion on 34 greenfield projects, Rhodium said.
  — Nina Trentmann, WSJ, 26 Feb. 2017
• ExxonMobil has pulled out all the stops to get its Guyana find online as fast as possible: its discovery-to-extraction timeline is the shortest ever for a greenfield project of its scale.
  — Amy Myers Jaffe, Foreign Affairs, 20 Jan. 2020
• The company will consider existing buildings and greenfield sites of 100 acres.
  — Laura Stevens, WSJ, 7 Sep. 2017
• 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 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
• 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
• By contrast, Mexico does not display a high level of greenfield investment.
  — Nathaniel Parish Flannery, Forbes, 8 Mar. 2023
• For Eastek, the expansion was the choice to develop a strategic relationship with The Entrada Group versus investing in their own greenfield.
  — Kate Vitasek, Forbes, 30 Oct. 2021
• Apart from the greenfield manufacturing plants, which will cost about $50 million each to build, Ang said the company is also expanding the capacity of existing feed mills across the Philippines.
  — Jonathan Burgos, Forbes, 4 June 2021
• Given that the permitting, construction and start-up of a large-scale new, greenfield refining operation in the U.S. would certainly take well more than a decade to complete, no company would dream of even attempting to mount such a project.
  — David Blackmon, Forbes, 16 Mar. 2023
• Amazon is also willing to consider greenfield sites, infill sites, existing buildings, or a combination for the project, according to the RFP.
  — Rochelle Riley, Detroit Free Press, 8 Sep. 2017
• But the Kentucky factory plan fell apart in recent years as Rusal backed out, leaving an empty greenfield and angry state legislators trying to claw back a $15 million taxpayer investment in the project.
  — Rachel Woolf For Cnn, CNN, 4 Apr. 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
• 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
• The company finds greenfield projects where its customers, both financial institutions and corporates, want to invest.
  — Felicia Jackson, Forbes, 5 Oct. 2022
• Both commissioned high-capacity greenfield wells last month.
  — Bloomberg.com, 1 Feb. 2018

Last Updated: 9 Jun 2024