grey area
Noun
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Noun
grey area (plural grey areas)
- (idiomatic) An area intermediate between two mutually exclusive states or categories, where the border between the two is fuzzy.
- It exists in a grey area between legal and illegal.
- (idiomatic) A topic that is not clearly one thing or the other, that is open to interpretation.
- 2007, May, in Men's Health, volume 22, number 4, page 94:
- Fame is a grey area[.]
- 2007, May, in Men's Health, volume 22, number 4, page 94:
- (an area intermediate between two mutually exclusive states or categories) penumbra
- French: zone grise
- German: Grauzone (especially in legal terminology)
- Russian: се́рая зо́на
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