ANNEXATION DEFINITIONS - 7 definitions found
annexation n 1: incorporation by joining or uniting [syn: annexation, 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" Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, 11th Edition (2003) annexation noun see annex I Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner\'s English Dictionary annexation see annex Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) Annexation \An`nex*a"tion\, n. [Cf. F. annexation. See Annex, v. t.] 1. 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. 2. (a) (Law) 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. Soule\'s Dictionary of English Synonyms annexation n. 1. Affixing, attaching, attachment, addition, adding, appending, annexment. 2. Junction, joining, connection, conjunction, union. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 115 Moby Thesaurus words for "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, zipping |
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