coasting trade

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noun

trade between ports along the same coast.

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Origin of coasting trade

First recorded in 1735–45

Its graceful hotels and beautiful restaurants are totally dependent on the tourist trade.
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Dance instructors run a lucrative trade offering private lessons to couples before their wedding receptions, typically the tango.
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Rebels in Africa trade in children to fund their conflicts and obtain child soldiers.
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The Canterbury Tales was, Strohm writes, “one of the volumes around which the new trade would organize itself.”
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There was really only one good reason to maintain the embargo: Trade with Cuba strengthens the Castros.
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The result of the restoration of trade, banking, and credit to earlier and more normal conditions has been steadily apparent.
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The doctrine of international free trade, albeit the most conspicuous of its applications, was but one case under the general law.
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But they have tied their credit system in the bonds of narrow banking laws and their trade in those of a cramping tariff.
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So far we have not made great progress in securing Europe's Latin-American trade.
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Soon after its cultivation began in France, Spain, and Portugal, the tobacco trade was farmed out.
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