Wiktionary
n. (alternative form of grey area English)
WordNet
n. an intermediate area; a topic that is not clearly one thing or the other [syn: grey area]
Usage examples of "gray area".
It's not for a few tons of gold, or some stock market shenanigans or a few gray area deals with the PRC however many millionstre involved.
He saw that somehow Minck, who through Alix's eyes he had come to see as a master spider spinning his unbreakable web from the absolute sanctity of the nation's capital, was enmeshed in a gray area just as he himself was.
Ahead lay a dim gray area of light that had to be the evening sky.
This was all part of the large gray area Frank hadn't explained, but she knew it was there.
People like me who are ex-NYPD Contract Agents are in a sort of gray area, and no one looks out for our interests, but neither do I have the problems of career officers, so it's a wash.
What made Friedrich Von Menck perfect was that he straddled the gray area in between.
Vaughn had considered the matter carefully, since the Prime Directive generally barred Starfleet contact with pre-warp civilizations, but a gray area existed in the regulation when the civilization itself initiated first contact.
It's not for a few tons of gold, or some stock market shenanigans or a few gray area deals with the PRC however many millions're involved.