They pushed me down the hospital corridor to the operating room. A corridor of land lies between the two mountain ranges.
Recent Examples on the WebRussia’s Defense Ministry said Monday that the first ship carrying agricultural products traveled via a humanitarian corridor agreed on between Russia and Ukraine and that Russian officers took part in the planning. Ian Lovett, WSJ, 2 Aug. 2022 Russian forces are accused of shelling a humanitarian corridor and cutting off the city’s power. Masha Gessen, The New Yorker, 1 Aug. 2022 On April 26, the secretary general of the United Nations, António Guterres, flew to Moscow with a proposal to open a humanitarian corridor for the civilians inside Azovstal.New York Times, 20 July 2022 Just days earlier, Russia had vetoed a plan at the UN Security Council to keep the humanitarian aid corridor from Bab al-Hawa on the Turkish border into Idlib province open for one more year. Lara Jakes, BostonGlobe.com, 12 July 2022 On Tuesday, a top Russian military official offered a humanitarian corridor to permit the evacuation of civilians trapped at the plant. Emily Rauhala, Washington Post, 14 June 2022 Russia is unwilling to allow a humanitarian corridor from Mariupol, said Mykhailo Podolyak, advisor to the Ukrainian president’s office. Donetsk. Katya Soldak, Forbes, 30 Apr. 2022 Ukrainian officials said no agreements had been reached for setting up a humanitarian corridor Wednesday to try to get civilians out. Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 27 Apr. 2022 There are still reports of 120,000 civilians in Mariupol, is there any chance for humanitarian corridor at this point?ABC News, 24 Apr. 2022 See More
Word History
Etymology
earlier "covered passageway, path surrounding fortifications," borrowed from French, borrowed from regional Italian (by-form of Tuscan corridoio), from correre "to run" (going back to Latin currere) + -idore, going back to Latin -i-tōrium (from -i--i- + -tōrium, suffix of place, from neuter of -tōrius, adjective derivative of -tōr-, -tor, agent suffix) — more at current entry 1