Dictionary

greenline en · VERB

Etymology

From green + line; compare redline, greenlight.

Meanings

1. (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.
   • 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) 1964, The Bankers Magazine, volume 162, page 47:
   • But ABN-AMRO redlined some small areas in largely yellowlined zip code areas, and greenlined some small areas in largely redlined areas. 2011, Manuel B. Aalbers, Place, Exclusion and Mortgage Markets:
   • 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 2013, Loretta Lees, Tom Slater, Elvin Wyly, Gentrification, page 32:

Forms

Antonyms

redline

Coordinates

yellowline

Deriveds

greenliner