28 February 2015

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
Middle French, Spanish
1825-1835; < French, derivative of caboter to sail coastwise, verbal derivative of Middle French cabo < Spanish cabo headland, cape2; see -age

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Examples from the web for cabotage
– cabotage services are reserved to national companies.

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