PILOTAGE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does pilotage mean? 

• PILOTAGE (noun)
  The noun PILOTAGE has 2 senses:

1. the guidance of ships or airplanes from place to place

2. the occupation of a pilot

  Familiarity information: PILOTAGE used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PILOTAGE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The guidance of ships or airplanes from place to place

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

navigation; pilotage; piloting

Hypernyms ("pilotage" is a kind of...):

direction; guidance; steering (the act of setting and holding a course)

Domain member category:

barge (transport by barge on a body of water)

raft (transport on a raft)

ferry (transport from one place to another)

ferry (transport by ferry)

ferry (travel by ferry)

wear ship (turn away from the wind)

tack; wear round (turn into the wind)

outpoint (sail closer to the wind than)

rack; scud (run before a gale)

beat (sail with much tacking or with difficulty)

sail (travel on water propelled by wind)

yacht (travel in a yacht)

steam; steamer (travel by means of steam power)

boat (ride in a boat on water)

weather (sail to the windward of)

luff; point (sail close to the wind)

bear down on; bear down upon (sail towards another vessel, of a ship)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "pilotage"):

instrument flying (navigation of an airplane solely by instruments)

astronavigation; celestial navigation (navigating according to the positions of the stars)

dead reckoning (navigation without the aid of celestial observations)

Derivation:

pilot (act as the navigator in a car, plane, or vessel and plan, direct, plot the path and position of the conveyance)

pilot (operate an airplane)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The occupation of a pilot

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

pilotage; piloting

Hypernyms ("pilotage" is a kind of...):

craft; trade (the skilled practice of a practical occupation)

Derivation:

pilot (act as the navigator in a car, plane, or vessel and plan, direct, plot the path and position of the conveyance)

pilot (operate an airplane)