Greenline

Quick meaning: Greenline is a verb meaning (transitive) To ease access to services to residents in specific areas, particularly by designating such areas as suitable for real-estate lending and property insurance.

Meaning

(transitive) To ease access to services to residents in specific areas, particularly by designating such areas as suitable for real-estate lending and property insurance.

Example Sentences

But ABN-AMRO redlined some small areas in largely yellowlined zip code areas, and greenlined some small areas in largely redlined areas.

Bankers, who must fight to stay even with inflation and face an uneven credit supply (even many "greenlined"' areas didn't get loans during the recession of 1974-1975)

If the new residents, especially the most recent arrivals, are less tolerant of lower or working-class behavior, these tensions may become serious. Banks begin to greenline the area, looking for spatial patterns of reinvestment

Word Forms

• greenlines
• greenlining
• greenlined

Antonyms for greenline

Common opposites include redline.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include grid, greisenise, greylist, gree, glei, gherao.

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