grey area

English

Alternative forms

gray area (US)

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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[.]

Synonyms

(an area intermediate between two mutually exclusive states or categories): penumbra

Translations

area intermediate between two fuzzily-distinguished categories

Chinese:
Mandarin: 灰色地帶, 灰色地带 (huīsèdìdài)
Danish: gråt område n, gråzone c
Finnish: harmaa alue
French: zone grise (fr) f
German: Grauzone (de) f (especially in legal terminology)

Japanese: グレーゾーン (gurē zōn)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: gråsone m or f

Nynorsk: gråsone f
Russian: се́рая зо́на f (séraja zóna)
Swedish: gråzon (sv) c

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