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CABOTAGE

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cab⋅o⋅tage

  [kab-uh-tij, kab-uh-tahzh]
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–noun
1. navigation or trade along the coast.
2. Aviation. the legal restriction to domestic carriers of air transport between points within a country's borders.
Origin:
1825–35; < F, deriv. of caboter to sail coastwise, v. deriv. of MF cabo < Sp cabo headland, cape 2 ; see -age
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cab·o·tage   (kāb'ə-täzh')   
n.  

  1. Trade or navigation in coastal waters.

  2. The exclusive right of a country to operate the air traffic within its territory.


[French, from caboter, to sail along a coast, perhaps from Spanish cabo, cape, from Latin caput, head; see cape2.]
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