1. Incorporation by joining or uniting
   - appropriation 
2. 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"

Derived forms: annexations

See also: annexational

Type of: acquisition, incorporation

Encyclopedia: Annexation

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