corridor

n.

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

1. A place in which powerful leaders work and rule.

[French, from Italian corridore, from correre, to run, from Latin currere.]

The space created between the total death benefit and the cash value of a Universal Life Insurance policy. An automatic increase in the death benefit results when the Cash Value approaches the initial face amount under Option A. If this space did not exist, the universal life insurance policy would not qualify as a life insurance policy under the definition of life insurance by the Internal Revenue Code (IRC) and would cease to reap the favorable tax treatment afforded life insurance policies by the IRC.

A limb of one state's territory that cuts through that of another, usually to allow access. The most famous is the Polish corridor, an extension of Poland created between the First and Second World Wars to give that country access to the Baltic coast ports of Danzig and Gdynia.

1. A long interior passageway providing access to several rooms.
2. A public means of access from several rooms or spaces to an exit.
3. An enclosed passageway that limits the means of egress to a single path of travel. Also see exit, passageway.

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Symbol of transition; going from one situation to something different. Alternatively, a corridor can represent a route to one's unconscious mind. In psychoanalysis, a womb symbol. (See also Hallway).

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Dansk (Danish)
n. - korridor, sidegang, landpassage, luftkorridor

Nederlands (Dutch)
gang, corridor, route voor luchtverkeer

Français (French)
n. - corridor, couloir, (Géog, Pol) corridor

Deutsch (German)
n. - Korridor, Gang

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - διάδρομος (κτιρίου κ.λπ.)

Italiano (Italian)
corridoio

Português (Portuguese)
n. - corredor (m)

Русский (Russian)
коридор

Español (Spanish)
n. - corredor, pasillo

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - korridor

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
走廊, 回廊

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 走廊, 回廊

한국어 (Korean)
n. - 복도, 주요 교통 기관

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 廊下, 回廊地帯

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) ممر, دهليز, رواق‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮מסדרון‬

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