brownfield

¹

[ broun-feeld ]

noun

1. an industrial or commercial site that is idle or underused because of real or perceived environmental pollution.

Brownfield

²

[ broun-feeld ]

noun

1. a city in NW Texas.

brownfield

/ ˈbraʊnˌfiːld /

noun

1. modifier denoting or located in an urban area that has previously been built on

   Hampshire has many brownfield developments

brownfield

/ broun′fēld′ /

1. 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.
2. Compare greenfield

Word History and Origins

Origin of brownfield¹

1975–80; brown + field

Example Sentences

These lands are all less than 10 miles from the toxic brownfield set to become the launch site.

From The Daily Beast

It’ll clean up brownfield and superfund sites, like abandoned mines and orphaned gas and oil wells—all while creating new jobs to perform those tasks.

From Outside Online

It offers a remote camping experience on nearly 60 acres of land in Brownfield, Maine, with only five yurts spread across it.

From Washington Post

Any industrial customer today depends on existing brownfield installations to run and operate their business—these are mostly highly complex and tailored to the targeted product.

From MIT Technology Review

Christopher Brownfield is former nuclear submarine officer, an Iraq war veteran, and the author of My Nuclear Family.

From The Daily Beast

Christopher Brownfield on how a fearful military undermines democracy.

From The Daily Beast

Christopher Brownfield on what Obama could learn from Bush and Putin about forceful decisions.

From The Daily Beast

The Daily Beast experts Peter Beinart, Nicolle Wallace, Tunku Varadarajan, Christopher Brownfield, Saad Mohseni, Ret.

From The Daily Beast

In the Navy, Christopher J. Brownfield was a patient under socialized health care and lived to tell the tale.

From The Daily Beast

Fine intervale lands abound in this vicinity, and also in Brownfield.

From Project Gutenberg

He is still living and in robust health, at Brownfield station, four miles south of Uniontown.

From Project Gutenberg

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.

From Project Gutenberg