English▸ noun [mass noun] the right to operate sea, air, or other transport services within a particular territory.
▪ restriction of the operation of sea, air, or other transport services within or into a particular country to that country's own transport services.
– ORIGIN mid 19th century (in the sense ‘coastal trade’): from French, from caboter ‘sail along a coast’, perhaps from Spanish cabo ‘cape, headland’.