coasting trade

noun

1. trade between ports along the same coast.

Word History and Origins

Origin of coasting trade¹

First recorded in 1735–45

Example Sentences

It is the headquarters of the Devonshire sea-fisheries, having also a large coasting trade.

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Unless the Austrians get possession of a point of land, we cannot stop the coasting-trade.

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And that smaller one, under full sail, fore-and-aft rigged, is a schooner in the coasting trade.

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The war had robbed the little city of its men; the blockade had robbed it of its little coasting-trade.

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Coasting trade was also recognized as properly belonging to the domain where Japan had the sovereign right of making regulations.

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