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Wednesday, January 28, 2015

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Jan. 28, 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.

Quotes

But when the Japanese ship finished unloading at Seattle, it was forbidden to engage in cabotage, that is, it could not pick up either cargo or passengers in Seattle and carry them to some other American port, say San Francisco.
-- James A. Michener, Alaska, 1988

Origin

Cabotage entered English in the 1820s. It is derived from the French word caboter, meaning "to sail coastwise."

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