corridor (redirected from corridors of power)

cor·ri·dor  (kôr-dr, -dôr, kr-)

n.

1. A narrow hallway, passageway, or gallery, often with rooms or apartments opening onto it.

2.

a. A tract of land forming a passageway, such as one that allows an inland country access to the sea through another country.

b. A restricted tract of land for the passage of trains.

c. Restricted airspace for the passage of aircraft.

d. 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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[French, from Italian corridore, from correre, to run, from Latin currere; see kers- in Indo-European roots.]

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corridor

Noun

1. a passage in a building or a train

2. a strip of land or airspace that provides access through the territory of a foreign country

3. corridors of power the higher levels of government or the Civil Service [Old Italian corridore, literally: place for running]

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

corridor - an enclosed passageway; rooms usually open onto it gallery - a covered corridor (especially one extending along the wall of a building and supported with arches or columns) hall, hallway - an interior passage or corridor onto which rooms open; "the elevators were at the end of the hall" passageway - a passage between rooms or between buildings

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corridor

noun passage, alley, aisle, hallway, passageway

Translations

corridor [ˈkɔrɪdɔːʳ] n → pasillo

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corridor [ˈkɔrɪdɔːʳ] n → couloir m, corridor m

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corridor [ˈkɔrɪdɔːʳ] n → Korridor m;

(in train) → Gang m

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corridor [ˈkɔrɪdɔːʳ] n → corridoio

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corridor

n corridor [ˈkoridoː]

a passageway, especially one off which rooms open Go along the corridor and up the stairs. gang مَمْشـى، رَواق، مَمَـر коридор chodba gang; korridor der Gang διάδρομος pasillo, corredor koridor راهرو käytävä corridor פְּרוזדוֹר, מִסדָרוֹן बरामदा, भवन में का मार्ग hodnik folyosó lorong gangur corridoio 廊下 복도 koridorius koridors kaki lima gang gang, korridor korytarz corredor coridor коридор chodba hodnik hodnik korridor ทางเดินยาวในตึก koridor 走廊 коридор گزرگاہ hành lang 走廊