| 单词 | greenlining |
| 释义 | > as lemmasgreenlining greenlining n. U.S. efforts aimed at increasing investment in neighbourhoods which have been red-lined or are otherwise disadvantaged (cf. red-line v. 1c); spec. (esp. in early use) the boycotting of banks thought to engage in red-lining; frequently attributive. ΚΠ 1974 Chicago Defender 21 Mar. 14/2 This ‘green-lining’ program is aimed at turning around the red-lining which is said to be starving older communities of mortgage money. 1980 J. McClaughry in P. Duignan & A. Rabushka U.S. in 1980s i. 383 The real answer to the bank that siphons its depositors' funds out of their declining neighborhood is greenlining. 1992 Business Jrnl. (Milwaukee, Wisconsin) (Nexis) 12 Sept. He said Shorebank would revitalize Milwaukee's faltering neighborhoods through a process of long-term reinvestment and job creation called ‘greenlining’. 2003 P. Dreier in G. D. Squires Organizing Access to Capital xii. 193 Efforts involved consumer boycotts—‘greenlining campaigns’—of neighborhood banks that refused to reinvest local depositors' money in their own backyards. < as lemmas |
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