coasting trade

American  

noun

1. trade between ports along the same coast.

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Etymology

Origin of coasting trade

First recorded in 1735–45

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Example Sentences

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coasting trade

He has not built the magnificent new port of Marseilles merely for the accommodation of the Mediterranean coasting trade of his empire.

From My Unknown Chum by Charles Bullard Fairbanks

I went up and down the ways of Llantrisant wondering, and came to the harbour, which is a little place, with little quays where some small coasting trade still lingers.

From The Great Return by Arthur Machen

In the Spring of 1800, I returned to Catskill, and found some employment in the coasting trade, on the Hudson River.

From Journal of Voyages Containing an Account of the Author's being Twice Captured by the English and Once by Gibbs the Pirate... by Jacob Dunham

The trade between all the different parts of the British empire would, in consequence of this uniformity in the customs-house laws, be as free as the coasting trade of Great Britain is at present.

From An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Germain Garnier

The shipping 931 at Bilbao is mainly Spanish, owing to the multitude of small vessels employed in the coasting trade; but from 1880 onwards the majority of foreign ships were British.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Slice 7 "Bible" to "Bisectrix" by Various

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