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cabotage

/ˈkæbətɪd͡ʒ/

cabotage noun: the transport of goods or passengers between two points in the same country.

Noun

cabotage (countable and uncountable, plural cabotages)

  1. The transport of goods or passengers between two points in the same country.
    • Cabotage traffic may be carried by a foreign carrier on special permission of the civil aeronautics authorities […].1943, William Armistead Moale Burden, The Struggle for Airways in Latin America, page 51
  2. The right to engage in such transport.
    • Cabotage, used as a legal term, here refers to the right to transport goods or passengers between ports of a country.2002, Kevin Colin Ingram, Xingang Li, Maritime Law and Policy in China, page 19
  3. The exclusive right of a country to control such transport.
    • Professor Levine distinguishes two kinds of cabotage: "primary cabotage" which can be compared with ninth freedom cabotages and "long-haul limited cabotage" which can be compared with eighth freedom cabotage […].1992, Pablo Mendes de Leon, Cabotage in Air Transport Regulation, →OCLC, page 104

cabotage meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Malay and Indonesian

cabotage in Tamil

கரையோர வணிகம்

cabotage in Urdu

ساحلی کشتی رانی

cabotage in Malay

the legal right
kabotaj
transport of goods or passengers in the same country
kabotaj

cabotage in Indonesian

the legal right
kabotase
transport of goods or passengers in the same country
kabotase

Forms of cabotage

pluralcabotages

Origin of cabotage

Borrowed from French cabotage (“coasting trade”), from caboter (“to travel by the coast”). It originally (16th c.) referred to restrictions allowing only French ships to trade or transport between French ports. Other countries adopted this concept and extended it to land and air travel.

Questions about cabotage

What does cabotage mean?
Cabotage means the transport of goods or passengers between two points in the same country.
What is cabotage in Tamil?
Cabotage in Tamil is கரையோர வணிகம். See Cabotage meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is cabotage?
Cabotage is a noun.
How do you pronounce cabotage?
Cabotage is pronounced /ˈkæbətɪd͡ʒ/ (UK).
What is the plural of cabotage?
The plural of cabotage is cabotages.

Words near cabotage in the dictionary

  1. cabosside
  2. cabossides
  3. Cabot
  4. Cabot Cove syndrome
  5. Cabot's tern
  6. cabotage
  7. cabotages
  8. cabotegravir
  9. cabotinage
  10. Cabourg
  11. cabover

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cabotage (page history and authors); cabotage (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); cabotage (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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