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Definitions: Cabotage |
CabotageNoun1. The exclusive right of a country to control the air traffic within its borders. 2. Navigation in costal waters. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Etymology: Cabotage \Cab"o*tage\, noun. [French expression cabotage, from caboter to sail along the coast; compage to the Spanish expression cabo cape.]. (Websters 1913) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Agriculture | Trade or transport in coastal waters between ports within the same country. U.S. "cabotage" legislation-notably the so-called Jones Act - is designed to support the maritime industry. (references) |
Economics | 1. Water transportation, navigation or trade along the coasts, between the ports of one nation. 2 Inland freight movements confined with the national boundaries of a nation are also sometimes called cabotage. (references) |
Shipping | Water transportation term applicable to shipments between ports of a nation; commonly refers to coast-wise or inter-coastal navigation or trade. Many nations, including the United States, have cabotage laws which require national flag vessels to provide domestic interport service. (references) |
Transportation | The right for an air carrier to undertake the commercial air transport of passengers, cargo and mail between two points within a Member State other than the State in which it is registered. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: Cabotage |
| Specialty definitions using "cabotage": Merchant Marine Act of 1920. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Cabotage" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. French (cabotage, coastal), Swedish (cabotage). |
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Economic History | Chile | National treatment is also denied for cabotage; instead, reciprocity is applied. (references) |
Netherlands | Nationality and ownership requirements apply for licenses to operate an airline, and cabotage is reserved to national carriers. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Cabotage" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Cabotage" is used about 9 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 9 | 117,287 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "cabotage" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Cabotage | Last name | 170 | 44,353 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
cabotage | 5 |
cabotage law | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "cabotage"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | lundrim anës detit, kabotazh. (various references) | |
Arabic | الملا حة الساحلية. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | каботаж. (various references) | |
Czech | kabotáž. (various references) | |
Danish | cabotage. (various references) | |
Dutch | cabotage. (various references) | |
French | cabotage. (various references) | |
German | Kabotage. (various references) | |
Greek | αεροπορικά δρομολόγια μέσα στην ίδια χώρα, δικαίωμα 5ης ελευθερίας. (various references) | |
Hungarian | partmenti hajózás. (various references) | |
Italian | cabotaggio (coastal fleet, coastal trade, coasting trade). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | abotagecay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | cabotagem. (various references) | |
Romanian | cabotaj (coastal navigation). (various references) | |
Russian | каботаж. (various references) | |
Spanish | cabotaje (coasting). (various references) | |
Swedish | kustfart. (various references) | |
Turkish | kabotaj (coasting, coasting trade). (various references) | |
Ukranian | каботаж. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | sự buôn bán dọc theo bờ biển. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "cabotage": cabotages. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "cabotage" (pronounced ka"butij) |
| 3 | -t i j | advantage, disadvantage, footage, frontage, hostage, percentage, reportage, vestige, vintage, Wantage. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-b-c-e-g-o-t" | |
-3 letters: abate, aceta, agate, begat, begot, togae. | |
-4 letters: abet, acta, bate, beat, beta, boat, bota, cage, cate, coat, cote, gate, geta, goat, tace, taco, toea, toga. | |
-5 letters: aba, abo, ace, act, aga, age, ago, ate, baa, bag, bat, beg, bet, boa, bog, bot, cab, cat, cob, cog, cot, eat, ego, eta, gab, gae, gat, get, goa, gob, got, oat, obe, oca, tab, tae, tag, tao, tea, teg, toe, tog. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-b-c-e-g-o-t" | |
+1 letter: cabotages. | |
+4 letters: geobotanical. | |
+5 letters: bacteriophage, bacteriophagy, decarbonating, megaloblastic. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)43 61 62 6F 74 61 67 65 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.-. .- -... --- - .- --. . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000011 01100001 01100010 01101111 01110100 01100001 01100111 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)C a b o t a g e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0043 0061 0062 006F 0074 0061 0067 0065 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3767688186677371 |
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