noun
- Incorporation by joining or uniting.
- synonyms: appropriation
- The formal act of acquiring something (especially territory) by conquest or occupation.
- usage: "the French annexation of Madagascar as a colony in 1896"; "a protectorate has frequently been a first step to annexation"
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