From Longman Business Dictionarycabotagecab‧o‧tage /ˈkæbəˌtɑːʒ/ noun [uncountable]TRANSPORT1LAW laws that allow ships, aircraft, or road vehicles to collect and move goods or passengers within a foreign country or to another countryan agreement which extended the rights of cabotage by road haulage firms in other EU member countries2the movement of ships from one port to another along the coast, usually within the same country