English-Dutch translations for borderline

• grens
  Door dit hof wordt ons onder ogen gebracht dat de grens tussen Realpolitik bedrijven en oorlogsmisdaden vaak heel gemakkelijk wordt overschreden. This court brings to our attention that the borderline between conducting Realpolitik and war crimes is often and easily transgressed.
  Uit de de vraag van mevrouw Fraisse en uw antwoord daarop is duidelijk gebleken dat er een duidelijke grens gesteld moeten worden aan wat wel en wat niet voor octrooi in aanmerking komt. Following up Mrs Fraisse's question and your response to that, the borderline must be established as to what is acceptable for patenting and what is not.
• demarcatie
• demarcatielijn
• dubieus
• grenslijn
• scheidingslijn
• scheidslijn

Definition of borderline

• nearly; not clearly on one side or the other of a border or boundary, ambiguous
• Showing bad taste
• Exhibiting borderline personality disorder
• nearly; not entirely but nevertheless to a great extent
• A boundary or accepted division; a border
• An individual who has borderline personality disorder
• To border, or border on; to be physically close or conceptually akin to

Examples

• I would rather hire a talented layman than a university graduate with borderline qualifications
• Your borderline remarks about my aunts dress destroyed my evening
• He is borderline hypoglycemic and needs to monitor his sugar intake
• I expected him to be super boring but he was actually borderline funny!
• She lives on the borderline between reality and madness

Related words

• borderliner
• borderline intellectual functioning
• borderline mental retardation
• borderline intellectually functioning
• borderline mentally retarded
• borderline personality disorder
• borderline syndrome
• borderline case