'Pilotage' definitions:
Definition of 'pilotage'
From: WordNet
noun
The guidance of ships or airplanes from place to place [syn: navigation, pilotage, piloting]
noun
The occupation of a pilot [syn: piloting, pilotage]
Definition of 'Pilotage'
From: GCIDE
- Pilotage \Pi"lot*age\, n. [Cf. F. pilotage.]
- 1. The pilot's skill or knowledge, as of coasts, rocks, bars, and channels. [Obs.] --Sir W. Raleigh. [1913 Webster]
- 2. The compensation made or allowed to a pilot. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Guidance, as by a pilot. --Sir W. Scott. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'pilotage'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- admission,
- admission fee,
- aeronautics,
- air service,
- airline,
- anchorage,
- aspect,
- astronautics,
- astronavigation,
- attitude,
- authority,
- aviation,
- azimuth,
- ballooning,
- bearing,
- bearings,
- blind flying,
- brokerage,
- carfare,
- celestial navigation,
- cellarage,
- charge,
- charges,
- chronometer,
- cloud-seeding,
- coastwise navigation,
- command,
- commercial aviation,
- conduct,
- consolan,
- contact flying,
- control,
- cover charge,
- cruising,
- dead reckoning,
- demand,
- direction,
- dockage,
- dues,
- entrance fee,
- exaction,
- exactment,
- exposure,
- fare,
- fee,
- fix,
- flight,
- flying,
- frontage,
- general aviation,
- gliding,
- governance,
- government,
- guidance,
- handling,
- helmsmanship,
- hire,
- husbandry,
- lay,
- lead,
- leading,
- license fee,
- lie,
- line of position,
- loran,
- management,
- managery,
- managing,
- manipulation,
- ordering,
- orientation,
- pilotry,
- pilotship,
- plane sailing,
- point-to-point navigation,
- portage,
- position,
- position line,
- radar,
- radio beacon,
- radio bearing,
- radio navigation,
- regulation,
- running,
- sailing,
- sailplaning,
- salvage,
- scot,
- scot and lot,
- set,
- sextant,
- shoran,
- shot,
- soaring,
- sofar,
- sonar,
- steerage,
- steering,
- storage,
- tables,
- the conn,
- the helm,
- the wheel,
- toll,
- towage,
- wharfage,
- winging