Betekenis van grey In het Nederlands

• 0 of the colour that is a mixture of black and white, the colour of rain clouds:

  • a grey sky

  • He started to go/turn grey in his mid-forties.

  • Night turned into morning, grey and cold.

• 1 boring and sad:

  • He saw a grey future stretch ahead of him.

• 2 the colour that is a mixture of black and white, the colour of rain clouds:

  • She was dressed in grey.

• 3 If a person or their hair greys, their hair becomes grey or white, usually because of age:

  • I'm greying at the sides.

• 4 If a group of people is greying, it contains an increasing number of older people:

  • Italy is greying faster than any other European country.

• 5 gray

• 6 used to describe an unofficial but not illegal system in which products are bought in a foreign country and sold more cheaply than in the manufacturer's usual distribution system:

  • Grey trade goods

• 7 used to describe people over about 50, considered as a group:

  • The grey generation are turning their backs on employment and starting their own businesses.