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brownfield
1[ broun-feeld ]
noun
- an industrial or commercial site that is idle or underused because of real or perceived environmental pollution.
Brownfield
2[ broun-feeld ]
noun
- a city in NW Texas.
brownfield
/ ˈbraʊnˌfiːld /
noun
- modifier denoting or located in an urban area that has previously been built on
Hampshire has many brownfield developments
brownfield
/ broun′fēld′ /
- A piece of industrial or commercial property that is abandoned or underused and often environmentally contaminated, especially one considered as a potential site for redevelopment.
- Compare greenfield
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Example Sentences
Christopher Brownfield is former nuclear submarine officer, an Iraq war veteran, and the author of My Nuclear Family.
Christopher Brownfield on how a fearful military undermines democracy.
Christopher Brownfield on what Obama could learn from Bush and Putin about forceful decisions.
The Daily Beast experts Peter Beinart, Nicolle Wallace, Tunku Varadarajan, Christopher Brownfield, Saad Mohseni, Ret.
In the Navy, Christopher J. Brownfield was a patient under socialized health care and lived to tell the tale.
Fine intervale lands abound in this vicinity, and also in Brownfield.
He is still living and in robust health, at Brownfield station, four miles south of Uniontown.
At his death it fell into the hands of his son, Daniel, who kept it for a number of years and sold out to Thomas Brownfield.
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