grey area

1. 1.

   an intermediate area; a topic that is not clearly one thing or the other

   Synonymsgray area

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Questions about grey area

What does grey area mean?

grey area means "an intermediate area; a topic that is not clearly one thing or the other".

What is another word for grey area?

Close synonyms include gray area. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is grey area a common word?

grey area is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.