cabotage

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

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 of cabotage

1
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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British Dictionary definitions for cabotage

cabotage

/ (ˈkæbəˌtɑːʒ) /


noun
  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

Origin of cabotage

1
C19: from French, from caboter to sail near the coast, apparently from Spanish cabo cape ²

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