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corridor | American Dictionary

corridor
noun[ C ]
us/ˈkɔr·əd·ər, ˈkɑr-, -əˌdɔr/

corridornoun[C] (PASSAGE)

a long passage in a building, ship, or train, esp. with rooms on one or both side:
The bathroom is at the end of the corridor.

corridornoun[C] (REGION)

a long, narrow region between two or more large cities, or an area along a busy road:
the Boston to Washington corridor
the Route 28 corridor

Examples of corridor

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Vomiting also occurred in corridors and lavatories, but not in the dining room.
He stresses the importance, when designing for this population, of maintaining simple ideas, including symmetry, balance and the avoidance of corridors.
The two arrowheads point to cytoplasmic corridors in the plane of focus.
Moreover, the combination of reduced cultivation and larger corridors can lead to reduced human-wildlife conflicts.
In the course of time, dozens of inhabitants of more populous villages, more often men than women,53 have acquired land rights in neighbouring corridors.
Obviously, the problem with assessing learning-based change within the security establishment is that much of the activity is hidden in the ' 'secluded' ' corridors of government.
Smaller posters could be placed in the corridors of stations where they would last longer than above ground.
His natural intellectual habitat was not the republic of letters, but his private study and the corridors of power.
I went out and paced the corridors and then hit on the answer.
You don't have the mandate to separate armed groups from refugees, only to open corridors for all.
The experiments have been done with a robot traversing corridors in a building but it is argued that the tasks are essentially similar.
The living rooms always face the view, you avoid corridors, everyone gets to have this big generous verandah as an entry.
Furthermore, orchards help to extend forest corridors and can thereby facilitate movement of wildlife between otherwise unconnected patches of natural forest.
Doors cut the corridors into segments and connect between adjacent corridors.
The size of the building and the similarity of its various corridors could be disorientating and confusing.
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Collocations withcorridor

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central corridor
Even in the centralcorridor there is land which will not be developed during the next 20 years.
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