Definition of Gray area

1. Noun. An intermediate area; a topic that is not clearly one thing or the other.

Exact synonyms: Grey Area
Generic synonyms: Area

Definition of Gray area

1. Noun. (idiomatic) A part that is not clear or certain; something that is open to interpretation. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Gray Area

gravy boat
gravy boats
gravy holder
gravy train
gravy trains
gravyless
gravylike
grawlix
grawlixes
gray-collar
gray-haired
gray-headed
gray-leaf pine
gray-scale ultrasonography
gray alder
gray area (current term)
gray areas
gray birch
gray cataract
gray catbird
gray collar
gray collie syndrome
gray columns
gray degeneration
gray eminence
gray fibres
gray flounder
gray fox
gray goldenrod
gray hat

Literary usage of Gray area

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Beating International Terrorism: An Action Strategy for Preemption and by Stephen Sloan (1992)
"Fighting in the gray area of Conflict: The Problem of Ambiguity Because modern terrorists operate in a multidimensional medium, in a condition of neither ..."

2. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by American Neurological Association, Philadelphia Neurological Society, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association, Boston Society of Psychiatry and Neurology (1877)
"Ganglionic matter rises and sinks in mass with the nerve bundles which terminate in it; and when we are tracing a fasciculus to a gray area which appears ..."

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