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gray literature

gray literature is the alternative spelling of grey literature.

Meaning of grey literature

Noun

grey literature (uncountable)

  1. Materials and research produced by organizations outside of the traditional commercial or academic publishing and distribution channels.

Questions about gray literature

What is gray literature the alternative spelling of?
Gray literature is the alternative spelling of grey literature.

Words near gray literature in the dictionary

  1. gray knight
  2. gray knights
  3. Gray Lady
  4. gray langur
  5. gray langurs
  6. gray literature
  7. gray magic
  8. gray magick
  9. gray man
  10. gray market
  11. gray marketeer

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Adapted from Wiktionary: gray literature (page history and authors); grey literature (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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