Cabotage Definition

kăbə-täzh
noun
Coastal navigation and trade, esp. between ports within a country.
Webster's New World
Air transport within a country.
Webster's New World
The right to engage in cabotage, esp. as granted to foreign carriers.
Webster's New World

Other Word Forms of Cabotage

Noun

Singular:
cabotage
Plural:
cabotages

Origin of Cabotage

  • French trade and navigation in coastal waters, especially those belonging to a single country from caboter to sail along a coast perhaps from Spanish cabo cape from Latin caput head cape2

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • Borrowing from French cabotage

    From Wiktionary

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