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cabotage

[kab-uh-tij, kab-uh-tahzh]

noun

navigation or trade along the coast.

Aviation. the legal restriction to domestic carriers of air transport between points within a country's borders.

Origin:
1825–35; < French, derivative of caboter to sail coastwise, verbal derivative of Middle French cabo < Spanish cabo headland, cape²; see -age

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cabotage (ˈkæbəˌtɑːʒ)

—n
1.	nautical coastal navigation or shipping, esp within the borders of one country
2.	reservation to a country's carriers of its internal traffic, esp air traffic

[C19: from French, from caboter to sail near the coast, apparently from Spanish cabocape²]

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