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cor·ri·dor
 (kôr   -d  r, -dôr  , k  r -)
KEY
NOUN:
- A narrow hallway, passageway, or gallery, often with rooms or apartments opening onto it.
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- A tract of land forming a passageway, such as one that allows an inland country access to the sea through another country.
- A restricted tract of land for the passage of trains.
- Restricted airspace for the passage of aircraft.
- The restricted path followed by a spacecraft on a particular mission.
- 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.
ETYMOLOGY:
French, from Italian corridore, from correre, to run, from Latin currere; see kers- in Indo-European roots
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