brownfield
n.— «The report supports modernization of smokestack industries and urges that those that are relocated be kept in “brownfield” areas where they will do less environmental damage and supply jobs in already industrialized regions.» —“Environmentalists produce national economic agenda” by Constance Holden Science July 13, 1984. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
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