different between ohio vs greenfield

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green +? field

greenfield (plural greenfields)

A site, to be used for housing or commerce, whose previous use (if any) was agricultural

greenfield (not comparable)

(software engineering) Being a completely new development, without the need to integrate with legacy systems etc.
- 2015, Mikael Lundin, Testing with F#, Packt Publishing Ltd (?ISBN), page 148:
  When you're working in a greenfield project and have a favorable situation of designing a database from the ground up, you have complete control over your database when it comes to integration tests, if you do it correctly.
(business) Previously untapped; free for the taking.

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