brownfield
adjective/ˈbraʊnfiːld/
/ˈbraʊnfiːld/
[only before noun]- used to describe an area of land in a city that was used by industry or for offices in the past and that may now be cleared for new building development
- a brownfield site
Oxford Collocations DictionaryBrownfield is used with these nouns:- site
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