PASTURE

[noun] - (an area of land covered in) grass or similar plants suitable for animals such as cows and sheep to eatThe sheep were grazing on the lush green pastures. [C]Some fields are planted with wheat, corn and sunflower for several years, and then returned to pasture for the cattle. [U](figurative) A lot of military officers, scientists and engineers who used to work for the government have left for greener pastures (= better paid jobs) in the private sector. [C](figurative informal) After thirty years of working at the same company he was put out to pasture like an old work-horse (= his employers got rid of him). [U](figurative UK) He has been director of the Festival for seven years, but he's off to pastures new (US new pastures) (= is going somewhere else) as soon as this year's Festival ends.