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/ˈænˌɛks/ /ənˈɛks/ Listen

noun

Annex n. Something annexed or appended; as, an additional stipulation to a writing, a subsidiary building to a main building; a wing.

verb

Annex v. t. (past & past part. annexed; pres. part. annexing)

To join or attach; usually to subjoin; to affix; to append; followed by to. "He annexed a codicil to a will."

To join or add, as a smaller thing to a greater. "He annexed a province to his kingdom."

To attach or connect, as a consequence, condition, etc.; as, to annex a penalty to a prohibition, or punishment to guilt.

Synonyms: To add; append; affix; unite; coalesce. See Add.

Annex v. i. To join; to be united.

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... Grand. Here, have a cigar. Just a family affair, you know. First night; certain to be a swell crowd there; everything sold out in advance. Supper afterwards, private dining-room at the Annex—just ourselves; no guests, except only the ...

— Beth Norvell - A Romance of the West • Randall Parrish

... children to be sick in, a workshop for them to work in, and what would you say to a small chapel and penitentiary, with a dungeon or two? While we are about it, let's have a market and cold storage annex." ...

— The House that Jill Built - after Jack's had proved a failure • E. C. Gardner

... The skilled men stood for the right to use their advantage of skill and efficient organization in order to wrest the maximum amount of concessions for themselves. The Knights of Labor endeavored to annex the skilled men in order that the advantage from their exceptional fighting strength might lift up the unskilled and semi-skilled. From the point of view of a struggle between principles, this was indeed a clash between the principle of solidarity of labor and that ...

— A History of Trade Unionism in the United States • Selig Perlman

... been robbed of a gold watch and other valuables, Wood was satisfied, without any other clue to the thief, when he found a finger-print on a lamp-chimney which the man had to light in order to see what he could annex. Then Wood proceeded to hunt for a criminal of the thief class, for he says, "It is well known that the criminal class at large are segregated into groups according to the line to which their abilities are applied." By following this idea he settled on a group ...

— Policing the Plains - Being the Real-Life Record of the Famous North-West Mounted Police • R.G. MacBeth

... a very few days before his publication appeared, is to "unite to their empire, either in possession or dependence, new barriers, many frontier places of strength, a large sea-coast, and many sea-ports." He ought to have stated it, that they would annex to their territory a country about a third as large as France, and much more than half as rich, and in a situation the most important for command that it would be possible ...

— The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. VI. (of 12) • Edmund Burke

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