Definition of corridor

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cor·ri·dor    (kôr-dr, -dôr, kr-) KEY 

NOUN:

1. A narrow hallway, passageway, or gallery, often with rooms or apartments opening onto it.
2. 1. A tract of land forming a passageway, such as one that allows an inland country access to the sea through another country.
   2. A restricted tract of land for the passage of trains.
   3. Restricted airspace for the passage of aircraft.
   4. The restricted path followed by a spacecraft on a particular mission.
3. A thickly populated strip of land connecting two or more urban areas: the Boston-Washington corridor.

IDIOM:
corridors of power

A place in which powerful leaders work and rule.

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ETYMOLOGY:
French, from Italian corridore, from correre, to run, from Latin currere; see kers- in Indo-European roots