annexation
IPA: ænɛksˈeɪʃʌn
noun
- Addition or incorporation of something, or territories that have been annexed.
- (law) A legal merging of a territory into another body.
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Examples of "annexation" in Sentences
- There was interest in annexation to the United States of America.
- What but annexation is missing in that domination exerted by a great nation over a smaller one.
- Ocala City Council also stressed getting rid of blight and developing a long-term annexation plan
- The impact of annexation is pretty foggy, however, except as it concerns the DOT facility being built on that parcel of land.
- What will follow next will depend on how strong Russia feels, how weak and slow the West's response is, but annexation is not out of the question.
- The Wilmington City Council voted Tuesday, with no one dissenting, to move forward with a long term annexation policy that could eventually boost the city's population by more than
- 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.
- There were threats of annexation from the United States of all or part of the Territory and it was deemed necessary to establish the rule of impartial law in order to prevent lawlessness.
- I do not mean to intimate by this that I believe in annexation; I do not believe in annexation, but I believe it is the role of Canada to increase the good feeling of the great nation to the south of us to the British Empire.
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