no-man's-landnoun
uk/ˈnəʊ.mænz.lænd/us/ˈnoʊ.mænz.lænd/[ S or U ] an area or strip of land that no one owns or controls, such as a strip of land between two countries' borders, especially in a war:
to be lost/stranded/stuck in no-man's-land
They found themselves trapped in the no-man's-land between the two warring factions.
[ S ] a situation or area of activity where there are no rules, or that no one understands or controls because it belongs neither to one type nor another:
The families of people who die in custody are in a legal no-man's-land when they try to discover what went wrong.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Territorial boundaries
- border
- bound
- boundary
- checkpoint
- frontier
- state line
- the Iron Curtain
- the Mason-Dixon Line
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