Associations to the word «Annexation»

Wiktionary

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

Dictionary definition

ANNEXATION, noun. Incorporation by joining or uniting.
ANNEXATION, noun. 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".

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats