gray area

/G R EY1 EH0 R IY0 AH0/
noun
  1. 1

    An area intermediate between two mutually exclusive states or categories, where the border between the two is fuzzy.

    โ€œIt exists in a grey area between legal and illegal.โ€

  2. 2

    A topic that is not clearly one thing or the other, that is open to interpretation.

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