annexation

Meaning

  1. (countable, uncountable) Addition or incorporation of something, or territories that have been annexed.
  2. (countable, uncountable) A legal merging of a territory into another body.

Synonyms

merger
C2
addition
B2
amalgamation
attachment
C2
appendage
40k
addendum
45k
appropriation
48k
combination
B2
joining
B2
incorporation
union
B1
articulation
attach
C2
bonding
C2
coalescence
coalition
C2
consolidation
dash
C1
💨
distress
C1
extra
B1
fork
C1
fusion
C2
graft
C2
grafting
48k
join
A2
melding
merging
25k
occupation
C1
preoccupancy
repossession
seizure
C1
soldering
46k
suffixing
superposition

swallowing up

annexion

highjack

joining into one

affixation
superinduction
absorption
34k

being annexed

accession
adding
C1
additive
47k
affiliation
32k
affixing
agglomeration
alliance
B2
append
Translations

anexión
annexion
annessione
anexação
annexatie
Annexion

προσάρτηση

annexió
inlijving

annexation

ilhak

Annektierung

Anschluss
إلحاق
Frequency

49k
Etymology

From Medieval Latin annexation-, stem of annexatio (“action of annexing”), from past participle of annecto.

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