Annexation

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. The act of annexing or uniting at the end; the act of adding, as a smaller thing to a greater; the act of connecting; conjunction; addition: as, the annexation of Texas to the United States.
  • noun. That which is annexed or added.
  • noun. In law: The attachment of chattels to a freehold, in such a manner as to give them the character of fixtures.
  • noun. In Scots law, the appropriating of church lands to the crown, or the union of lands lying at a distance from the kirk to which they belong to the kirk which is nearest to them.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. The act of annexing; process of attaching, adding, or appending; the act of connecting; union.
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. The union of property with a freehold so as to become a fixture. Bouvier. (b) (Scots Law) The appropriation of lands or rents to the crown.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. An act of annexing, or territories that have been annexed.
  • noun. A legal merging of a territory into another body.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. the formal act of acquiring something (especially territory) by conquest or occupation
  • noun. incorporation by joining or uniting
  • Word Usage
    "I happen to think that annexation is the real policy of the present Israeli administration only that they hope to achieve that result by stealth rather than by an outright declaration."
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