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Jan. 28, 2015
Word of the Day

cabotage Audio Pronunciation
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\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.
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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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