n.
- a long passage from which doors lead into rooms.
▸Brit. a passage along the side of a railway carriage giving access to compartments.
- a belt of land linking two other areas or following a road or river.
Phrase
- the corridors of power
the senior levels of government or administration.
Etymology
C16: from Fr., from Ital. corridore, alt. (by assoc. with corridore ‘runner’) of corridoio ‘running-place’, from correre ‘to run’, from L. currere.
