annex

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   An addition, an extension.

   • 6.2.3.2.2. For aircraft having pressurized cabins, the disinsection of cabins and annexes, cockpit and annexes, is to be carried out after the embarkation of passengers and crew and the closing of the doors and windscreen[.]
2. 2

   An appendix to a book or document.

3. 3

   An addition or extension to a building.

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   1. 4

      An addition to the territory of a country or state, from a neighbouring country or state,…

      An addition to the territory of a country or state, from a neighbouring country or state, normally by military force.

   2. 5

      To add something to another thing, especially territory

      To add something to another thing, especially territory; to incorporate.

      • The ancient city of Petra was annexed by Rome.
      • In 1910, he returned to Korea, which had by this time been annexed by Japan.
   3. 6

      To attach or connect, as a consequence, condition, etc.

      • to annex a penalty to a prohibition, or punishment to guilt
      • Annexed to my feeling of guilt was a sense of having let my familiy down.
      • Under Edward the Second, the Commons began to annex petitions to the bills by which they granted subsidies
   4. 7

      To join

      To join; to be united.

   5. 8

      To take something without permission (informal)

      • I returned to resume my place but my assistant had already annexed my chair.
   6. 9

      A census-designated place in Malheur County, Oregon, United States.

The neighborhood

• synonymsupplement
• synonymaugmentation
• synonymunderjoin
• antonymseparate
• neighboradnexa
• neighbormerge
• neighborfuse
• neighboradd