Noun

1. The transport of goods or passengers between two points in the same country.
   • 1977, William Armistead Moale Burden, The Struggle for Airways in Latin America, page 51

     Cabotage traffic may be carried by a foreign carrier on special permission of the civil aeronautics authorities […].

2. The right to engage in such transport.
   • 2002', Kevin Colin Ingram, Xingang Li, Maritime Law and Policy in China, page 19

     Cabotage, used as a legal term, here refers to the right to transport goods or passengers between ports of a country.

3. The exclusive right of a country to control such transport.
   • 1992, Pablo Mendes de Leon, Cabotage in Air Transport Regulation, page 104

     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 […].