English-Finnish translations for grey area

• harmaa alue
  Tähän on vielä lisättävä harmaa alue. To that we must also add a grey area.
  Euroopan unioniin on syntymässä perusoikeuksien kannalta harmaa alue. A grey area of fundamental rights is emerging in Europe.
  Tämä on harmaa alue, joka jää talousarviomenojen valvonnan ulkopuolelle. This is a grey area outside the scope of the control to which budgetary expenditure is subject.

Definition of grey area

• An area intermediate between two mutually exclusive states or categories, where the border between the two is fuzzy
• A topic that is not clearly one thing or the other, that is open to interpretation

Examples

• It exists in a grey area between legal and illegal.

Related words

• grey long-eared bat
• Grey-collared Oriole
• all cats are grey in the dark
• all cats are grey at night