GND

Proper noun

Green New Deal

1. (US) A set of proposed public policy changes to address climate change along with achieving other social aims like job creation and reducing economic inequality.
   • The right rallying call is for a “Green New Deal.” The New Deal was not built on a magic bullet, but on a broad range of programs and industrial projects to revitalize America. Ditto for an energy New Deal.2007 January 19, Thomas L. Friedman, “A Warning From the Garden”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 27 Jul 2019

Noun

ground (countable and uncountable, plural grounds)

1. The surface of the Earth, as opposed to the sky or water or underground.
   • Look, I found a ten dollar bill on the ground!
2. (uncountable) Terrain.
   • As the terrain-following radar scans the ground ahead of the aircraft the actual clearance height is measured by the radio altimeter.1971, “The development of terrain following radar: an account of the progress made with an airborne guidance system for low flying military aircraft”, in Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology
3. Soil, earth.
   • The worm crawls through the ground.
4. (countable) The bottom of a body of water.
5. Basis, foundation, groundwork, legwork.
   • Wyth cry unreverent,
     Before the sacrament,
     Wythin the holy church bowndis,
     That of our fayth the grownd is.c. 1503–1512, John Skelton, Ware the Hauke; republished in John Scattergood, editor, John Skelton: The Complete English Poems, 1983, →OCLC, page 62, lines 11–14
6. (in plural) Reason, (epistemic) justification, cause.
   • You will need to show good grounds for your action.

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