English-Portuguese translations for landlocked

• encravado
  Senhor Presidente, a Moldávia é um pequeno país encravado, o mais pobre da Europa, que irá tornar-se ainda mais importante para a UE quando passarmos a ter fronteiras comuns em 2007. Mr President, Moldova is a small landlocked country, the poorest in Europe, whose importance to the EU will rise as our frontiers will border it by 2007.
  Contudo, numa região tão instável como a Transcaucásia, este país, geograficamente encravado, sofre, por parte dos seus vizinhos (Turquia, Azerbaijão), uma pressão económica insustentável. However, in a region as unstable as Transcaucasia, this landlocked country has been exposed to intolerable economic pressure from its neighbours Turkey and Azerbaijan.

Definition of landlocked

• Surrounded by land (having no borders with the sea
• Living in freshwater, such as landlocked salmon

Examples

• Switzerland is landlocked and obviously will never be a great sea power and must always trade overland.

Related words

• landlord
• landlocked country
• landlord and landlady
• landlocked salmon
• Landlords and Tenants Act
• be a landlord