0 an uncertain situation that you cannot control and in which there is no progress or improvement:
Until we have official permission to go ahead with the plans we're in limbo.
1 a dance from the West Indies in which the dancer bends backwards to go under a low bar that is made lower each time he or she goes under it
2 an uncertain situation that you cannot control and in which there is no progress or improvement:
Until we've got official permission to go ahead with the plans we will remain in limbo.
bureaucratic/political/legal limbo
Each limbo, now conceived of as a family homestead, was to use a particular strip of land extending into the hinterland.
The concept of complexity thus continues to wander around in limbo between ontology and epistemology.
She found living in limbo, neither dead nor alive, unacceptable.
Prisoners on parole, of course, might find themselves in limbo waiting for their case to be heard (and it could even be heard in camera).
Generally the illustrations are of a symbolic nature and fall into a limbo between the textual prescription and the ceremony of coronation as performed.
He manipulates them to create an alternative reality, but his preoccupation with them amounts to an artistic limbo in the modern world.
Also, why do some markets seem to linger in a 'limbo' state for a few years-not growing very much but managing to survive?
In fact, villagers make a clear distinction in everyday language between inhabited space (the limbo and its fields) and the surrounding wilderness (musenge).
