- brownfield
- noun Usage: often attributive Date: 1977 a tract of land that has been developed for industrial purposes, polluted, and then abandoned
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Brownfield — ist der Name mehrerer Orte in den Vereinigte Staaten: Brownfield (Illinois) Brownfield (Maine) Brownfield (Mississippi) Brownfield (Missouri) Brownfield (Pennsylvania) Brownfield (Texas) In der IT steht der Begriff als: Brownfield… … Deutsch Wikipedia
brownfield — brown‧field [ˈbraʊnfiːld] adjective [only before a noun] PROPERTY relating to areas of a city that in the past were used for factories, offices etc, and could be cleared and used to build new houses : • Thousands of new homes will be built on… … Financial and business terms
Brownfield — Brownfield, TX U.S. city in Texas Population (2000): 9488 Housing Units (2000): 3735 Land area (2000): 6.320941 sq. miles (16.371161 sq. km) Water area (2000): 0.020289 sq. miles (0.052547 sq. km) Total area (2000): 6.341230 sq. miles (16.423708… … StarDict's U.S. Gazetteer Places
Brownfield, TX — U.S. city in Texas Population (2000): 9488 Housing Units (2000): 3735 Land area (2000): 6.320941 sq. miles (16.371161 sq. km) Water area (2000): 0.020289 sq. miles (0.052547 sq. km) Total area (2000): 6.341230 sq. miles (16.423708 sq. km) FIPS… … StarDict's U.S. Gazetteer Places
brownfield — USA As used in project financing, an existing and operational project that is being modified to comply with legal and technological developments or expanded to increase capacity or production. For more information on project finance transactions … Law dictionary
Brownfield — BROWNFIELD, a quoad sacra parish; consisting of part of the parish of St. George, in the city of Glasgow, county of Lanark; and containing 2525 inhabitants. This place, which forms part of the suburb of Anderston, is situated on the north bank … A Topographical dictionary of Scotland
brownfield — 1992, Amer.Eng., abandoned or disused industrial land, often contaminated to some degree, from BROWN (Cf. brown) + FIELD (Cf. field) … Etymology dictionary
brownfield — [broun′fēld΄] n. real estate, esp. the land, that is heavily contaminated with industrial pollutants, as an abandoned industrial site in a large city … English World dictionary
Brownfield — 1 Original name in latin Brownfield Name in other language State code US Continent/City America/New York longitude 43.93813 latitude 70.90868 altitude 130 Population 1301 Date 2006 01 17 2 Original name in latin Brownfield Name in other language… … Cities with a population over 1000 database
brownfield — [[t]bra͟ʊnfiːld[/t]] ADJ Brownfield land is land in a town or city where houses or factories have been built in the past, but which is not being used at the present time. [ADJ n] By 2005 he wants half of all new houses to be built on previously… … English dictionary
brownfield — n. An abandoned, contaminated industrial site. Example Citation: The emphasis of the federal program may need to be shifted slightly to enable the cleanup of hundreds of thousands of brownfield sites. Those areas are not as dangerously polluted… … New words
