greenfield

See also: Greenfield

English

Etymology

green +‎ field

Noun

greenfield (plural greenfields)

1. A site, to be used for housing or commerce, whose previous use (if any) was agricultural

Translations

previously agricultural site for development

• Maori: papa ururua
• Welsh: cae glas m

Adjective

greenfield (not comparable)

1. (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.

2. (business) Previously untapped; free for the taking.

   a greenfield market

   a greenfield sales opportunity

See also

• blue-skies
• brownfield
• virgin field