Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The transportation of passengers and goods within the same country.
- noun Law or policy protecting transporters of passengers and goods within a country from competition from foreign carriers.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Nautical, navigation along a coast; coasting-trade.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Naut.) Navigation along the coast; the details of coast pilotage.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The transport of goods or passengers between two points in the same country.
- noun The right to engage in such transport.
- noun The
exclusive right of acountry tocontrol such transport.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the exclusive right of a country to control the air traffic within its borders
- noun navigation in coastal waters
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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-The EU wanted to open the U.S. market by winning so-called "cabotage" rights, the ability to operate inside the U.S. market with no restrictions.
Delay Could Wreck Open Skies Deal Oxford Analytica 2006
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They called the right to conduct such trading "cabotage" too.
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Later, English speakers also applied "cabotage" to the rights that allowed domestic airlines to travel within national boundaries but that prevented foreign carriers from doing so.
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That verb gave rise to the French noun "cabotage," which named trade or transport along a coast.
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- the traditional enforcement of "cabotage" first established in the United States in 1789.
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Now that energy is safe, however, there is a danger that the even greater long-term losses from the cabotage law will be forgotten.
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The U.S. offers a lesson in the costs of cabotage.
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Our story begins in the early 2000s when the Indonesian National Shipowners Association lobbied for a cabotage law—restricting domestic trade to domestic carriers—to shield them from foreign competition.
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The contract to build two vessels in Philadelphia for ExxonMobil's SeaRiver Maritime subsidiary which each carry 115,000 tons of cargo are the result of the provisions of our cabotage law, the Jones Act, which dictates that vessels carrying cargo between U.S. ports be constructed in the U.S. and owned and operated by U.S. citizens.
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Indonesia's business elite will no doubt continue to thrive nevertheless, as even more government intervention is granted to compensate for the loss of competitiveness caused by cabotage.
bilby commented on the word cabotage
Avoid booby-trapped taxis.
December 8, 2008
qms commented on the word cabotage
Do pirate's harass the right's cabotage?
The case seemed a trumpery charge
But rubes with wild stares
And cruising corsairs
Have wrought depredation writ large.
March 9, 2016