Usually means: Formal acquisition of territory expansion.
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General (22 matching dictionaries)
  1. annexation: Merriam-Webster
  2. annexation: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. annexation: Collins English Dictionary
  4. annexation: Vocabulary.com
  5. Annexation, annexation: Wordnik
  6. annexation: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. annexation: Wiktionary
  8. annexation: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. Annexation, annexation: Dictionary.com
  10. annexation: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  11. Annexation: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. Annexation: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. annexation: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. annexation: Rhymezone
  15. Annexation: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. annexation: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  17. annexation: FreeDictionary.org
  18. annexation: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. annexation: TheFreeDictionary.com
  20. annexation: Merriam-Webster

Business (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. annexation: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  3. annexation: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  4. THE 'LECTRIC LAW LIBRARY'S REFERENCE ROOM (No longer online)
  5. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  6. annexation: Legal dictionary
  7. annexation: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. annexation: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Political (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (annexation)

▸ noun:  Addition or incorporation of something, or territories that have been annexed.
▸ noun:  (law) A legal merging of a territory into another body.

Similar:
appropriation, annexment, annexationism, annexure, reannexation, deannexation, inclusion, accretion, adding, incorporation, more...

Opposite:
secession, withdrawal, divorce

Phrases:
annexation crisis, treaty of annexation, Annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation, Annexation of Tibet by the People's Republic of China, Annexation of Goa, more...

Adjectives:
british, immediate, german, formal, american, outright, french, forcible, japanese, russian, soviet

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Similar:
appropriation, annexment, annexationism, annexure, reannexation, deannexation, inclusion, accretion, adding, incorporation, more...

Opposite:
secession, withdrawal, divorce

Phrases:
annexation crisis, treaty of annexation, Annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation, Annexation of Tibet by the People's Republic of China, Annexation of Goa, Texas annexation, Annexation of Hyderabad, more...

Adjectives:
british, immediate, german, formal, american, outright, french, forcible, japanese, russian, soviet

Colors:
    gray,     dark green,     olive,     maroon,     black, more...



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