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  2. Greenfield land - Wikipedia

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    Greenfield land is a British English term [1] [2] referring to undeveloped land [3] in an urban or rural area either used for agriculture or landscape design, or left to evolve naturally. These areas of land are usually agricultural or amenity properties being considered for urban development .

  3. List of English words of Hindi or Urdu origin - Wikipedia

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    In some cases words have entered the English language by multiple routes - occasionally ending up with different meanings, spellings, or pronunciations, just as with words with European etymologies. Many entered English during the British Raj in colonial India. These borrowings, dating back to the colonial period, are often labeled as "Anglo ...

  4. Greenfield - Wikipedia

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    Greenfield agreement, an employment agreement for a new organisation; Greenfield land, a piece of undeveloped land (the opposite of brownfield land) Greenfield project, a project which lacks any constraints imposed by prior work; Greenfield status, a term used after a decommissioned site is restored to its original condition prior to any ...

  5. Greenfield airport - Wikipedia

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    A greenfield airport is an aviation facility with greenfield project characteristics. The designation reflects certain environmental qualities (using previously undeveloped or empty greenfield land , for example) and commissioning, planning and construction processes that are generally carried out from scratch.

  6. List of national capital city name etymologies - Wikipedia

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    The root word has been speculated to be: Mandala (meaning, circular plains), Mandare (believed to mean "auspicious land"), or Mandara (a mountain from Hindu mythology). When it was founded in 1857, the royal city was officially named Yadanabon (ရတနာပုံ), the Burmese version of its Pali name Ratanapura (ऋअतनपुर) which ...

  7. Greenfield status - Wikipedia

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    Greenfield status (also known as "unrestricted re-use" [1]) is an end point wherein a parcel of land that had been in industrial use is, in principle, restored to the conditions existing before the construction of the plant. All power plants—whether coal, gas, and nuclear—have a finite life beyond which it is no longer economical to operate ...

  8. Greenfield project - Wikipedia

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    In wireless engineering, a greenfield project could be that of rolling out a new generation of cell phone networks.The first cellular telephone networks were built primarily on tall existing tower structures or on high ground in an effort to cover as much territory as possible in as little time as possible and with a minimum number of base stations.

  9. List of country-name etymologies - Wikipedia

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    Mesopotamia (ancient name and Greek variant): a loan-translation (Greek meso-(between) and potamos (river), meaning "Between the Rivers") of the ancient Semitic Bein-Al Nahrein, "Land of two Rivers", referring to the Tigris and Euphrates rivers.