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annexation
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun annexation has 2 senses
- annexation(n = noun.act) appropriation - incorporation by joining or uniting; Array is a kind of incorporation
- annexation(n = noun.act) Array - the formal act of acquiring something (especially territory) by conquest or occupation; "the French annexation of Madagascar as a colony in 1896"; "a protectorate has frequently been a first step to annexation" is a kind of acquisition
Derived form adjective annexational1
Derived form adjective annexational1
CIDE DICTIONARY
- The act of annexing; process of attaching, adding, or appending; the act of connecting; union; as, the annexation of Texas to the United States, or of chattels to the freehold. [1913 Webster]
- 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. Wharton. [1913 Webster]
THESAURUS
annexation
abstraction, accession, accessory, accompaniment, addenda, addendum, additament, addition, additive, additory, additum, adhesive, adjunct, adjunction, adjuvant, affixation, agglutination, angary, annex, annexure, appanage, appendage, appendant, appropriation, appurtenance, appurtenant, attachment, augment, augmentation, binding, bond, boosting, clasping, coda, collectivization, commandeering, communalization, communization, complement, concomitant, confiscation, continuation, conversion, conveyance, corollary, distraint, distress, embezzlement, eminent domain, execution, expropriation, extension, extrapolation, fastener, fastening, filching, fixture, fraud, garnishment, girding, graft, hooking, impoundment, impressment, increase, increment, joining, junction, juxtaposition, knot, lashing, levy, liberation, lifting, ligation, nationalization, offshoot, pendant, pilferage, pilfering, pinching, poaching, prefixation, reinforcement, right of angary, scrounging, sequestration, shoplifting, side effect, side issue, snatching, sneak thievery, snitching, socialization, splice, stealage, stealing, sticking, suffixation, superaddition, superfetation, superjunction, superposition, supplement, supplementation, swindle, swiping, tailpiece, theft, thievery, thieving, tieing, undergirding, uniting, zippingROGET THESAURUS
annexation
Addition
N addition, annexation, adjection, junction, superposition, superaddition, superjunction, superfetation, accession, reinforcement, increase, increment, supplement, accompaniment, interposition, insertion, added, additional, supplemental, supplementary, suppletory, subjunctive, adjectitious, adscititious, ascititious, additive, extra, accessory, au reste, in addition, more, plus, extra, and, also, likewise, too, furthermore, further, item, and also, and eke, else, besides, to boot, et cetera, and so on, and so forth, into the bargain, cum multis aliis, over and above, moreover, with, withal, including, inclusive, as well as, not to mention, let alone, together with, along with, coupled with, in conjunction with, conjointly, jointly, adde parvum parvo magnus acervus erit.Junction
N junction, joining, joinder, union connection, conjunction, conjugation, annexion, annexation, annexment, astriction, attachment, compagination, vincture, ligation, alligation, accouplement, marriage infibulation, inosculation, symphysis, anastomosis, confluence, communication, concatenation, meeting, reunion, assemblage, coition, copulation, sex, sexual congress, sexual conjunction, sexual intercourse, love-making, joint, joining, juncture, pivot, hinge, articulation, commissure, seam, gore, gusset, suture, stitch, link, miter mortise, closeness, tightness coherence, combination, annexationist, joined, joint, conjoint, conjunct, corporate, compact, hand in hand, firm, fast, close, tight, taut, taught, secure, set, intervolved, inseparable, indissoluble, insecable, severable, jointly, in conjunction with, fast, firmly intimately, tria juncta in uno.
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