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cabotages

cabotages is the plural of cabotage.

Meaning of cabotage

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

Questions about cabotages

What is cabotages the plural of?
Cabotages is the plural of cabotage.

Words near cabotages in the dictionary

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

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