coastless

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

coast +‎ -less

Adjective[edit]

coastless (not comparable)

  1. Without a coast.
    • 1935, Monthly Labor Review, volume 38, page 761:
      But the absence of the other 54 ratifications hypothetically due from the coastless countries obviously does not represent any gap in the application of the internationally approved minima.
    • 1993, The Courier, page 84:
      Transport costs, port dues and customs duties in the countries of transit all have to be settled in the strong currencies which the coastless countries find so hard to come by, particularly if they are already heavily in debt.