cabotage

cabotage
/kab"euh tij, kab'euh tahzh"/, n.
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.
[1825-35; < F, deriv. of caboter to sail coastwise, v. deriv. of MF cabo < Sp cabo headland, CAPE2; see -AGE]

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