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grey literature

grey literature noun: materials and research produced by organizations outside of the traditional commercial or academic publishing and distribution channels.

Noun

grey literature (uncountable)

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

Forms of grey literature

alternative USgray literature

Questions about grey literature

What does grey literature mean?
Grey literature means materials and research produced by organizations outside of the traditional commercial or academic publishing and distribution channels.
What part of speech is grey literature?
Grey literature is a noun.

Words near grey literature in the dictionary

  1. grey knight
  2. grey knights
  3. Grey Lady
  4. grey line
  5. grey lines
  6. grey literature
  7. grey magic
  8. grey magick
  9. grey market
  10. grey marketeer
  11. grey marketeers

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Adapted from Wiktionary: 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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