pilotage

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: pi=lot=age

CIDE DICTIONARY

pilotage, n. [Cf. F. pilotage.].

•  The pilot's skill or knowledge, as of coasts, rocks, bars, and channels.  Sir W. Raleigh.  [1913 Webster]
•  The compensation made or allowed to a pilot.  [1913 Webster]
•  Guidance, as by a pilot.  Sir W. Scott.  [1913 Webster]

THESAURUS

pilotage

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

ROGET THESAURUS

pilotage

Direction

N direction, management, managery, government, gubernation, conduct, legislation, regulation, guidance, bossism, legislature, steerage, pilotage, reins, reins of government, helm, rudder, needle, compass, guiding star, load star, lode star, pole star, cynosure, supervision, superintendence, surveillance, oversight, eye of the master, control, charge, board of control, command, premiership, senatorship, director, chair, portfolio, statesmanship, statecraft, kingcraft, queencraft, ministry, ministration, administration, stewardship, proctorship, agency, director, directing, hegemonic, at the helm, at the head of, direction, bearing, course, vector, set, drift, tenor, tendency, incidence, bending, trending, dip, tack, aim, collimation, steering steerage, point of the compass, cardinal points, North East, South, West, N by E, ENE, NE by N, NE, rhumb, azimuth, line of collimation, line, path, road, range, quarter, line of march, alignment, allignment, air line, beeline, straight shoot, directed, directed towards, pointing towards, bound for, aligned, with alligned with, direct, straight, undeviating, unswerving, straightforward, North, Northern, Northerly, towards, on the road, on the high road to, en avant, versus, to, hither, thither, whither, directly, straight as an arrow, forwards as an arrow, point blank, in a bee line to, in a direct line to, as the crow flies, in a straight line to, in a bee line for, in a direct line for, in a straight line for, in a bee line with, in a direct line with, in a straight line with, in a line with, full tilt at, as the crow flies, before the wind, near the wind, close to the wind, against the wind, windwards, in the wind's eye, through, via, by way of, in all directions, in all manner of ways, quaquaversum, from the four winds, the shortest distance between two points is a stra.