buffer zone

Noun

1. A neutral area that is located between hostile forces, and is designed to prevent hostilities.
2. A transitional area between areas of different land use.
   • And it had been a close-run thing for many of the nearest - perhaps too close. Councillor Renee Spector, a senior member of Birmingham City Council planning committee, told the local press that the accident might force...
3. A conceptual space between two things.
   • Does she wear glasses with fashionable frames, has she had her lids lifted, does she streak or tint? All of these things are possible: we’ve both reached that borderline age, that buffer zone in which it can still be...
4. Synonym of bubble zone (“a perimeter around an abortion facility”).

   Synonyms: bubble zone