The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 7 letter word PASSAGE
I've seen this crossword clue in Financial Times
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More clues leading to the result PASSAGE
- Spend a long time in corridor
- Secretary's learned to make progress
- Opening excerpt
- Fool nabbed by servant in corridor
- Piece of text fool inserted into episode
- Go and get on way
- Step over wise guy in corridor
- While away time in a sea journey
- Journey in a ship covered by part of journal
- Crossing pages out to cover up a bit of scandal
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What does PASSAGE mean?
PASSAGE noun- A paragraph or section of text or music with particular meaning.
- Part of a path or journey.
- An incident or episode.
- The official approval of a bill or act by a parliament.
- The advance of time.
- The use of tight brushwork to link objects in separate spatial plains. Commonly seen in Cubist works.
- A passageway or corridor.
- An underground cavity, formed by water or falling rocks, which is much longer than it is wide.
- The vagina.
- The act of passing; movement across or through.
- The right to pass from one place to another.
- A fee paid for passing or for being conveyed between places.
- Serial passage, a technique used in bacteriology and virology
- A gambling game for two players using three dice, in which the object is to throw a double over ten.
- To pass something, such as a pathogen or stem cell, through a host or medium
- To make a passage, especially by sea; to cross
- Describing a bird that has left the nest, is living on its own, but is less than a year old. (commonly used in falconry)
- A movement in classical dressage, in which the horse performs a very collected, energetic, and elevated trot that has a longer period of suspension between each foot fall than a working trot.
- To execute a passage movement