Definition of "annexation" []

• An act of annexing, or territories that have been annexed. (noun)
• A legal merging of a territory into another body. (noun)

Wiktionary.org : Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License

• "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."
• "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 impact of annexation is pretty foggy, however, except as it concerns the DOT facility being built on that parcel of land."