to annex
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- verb
- /ˈænɛks/
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anexar
- Instead, they elected a new mayor and developed a plan to annex a portion of neighboring Cheshire Township (Price 2003, 2004a).
- annexed to the city
It will probably take you years before you can annex enough spaces in that house for your stuff.
- It will probably take you years before you can annex enough spaces in that house for your stuff.
Examples
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Officials envisioned annexing all or parts of the arsenal to Commerce City for new airport-related industrial and commercial development.
Academic text (1999) -
For example, Palm Springs annexed several square miles of land occupied by the wind turbines and started receiving tax revenues.
Academic text (2011) -
Nor was the town able to annex nearby land.
Academic text (2005) -
Some nations go so far as to completely annex their energy industries.
Blog text (14) -
Kokomo is planning to annex part of its southeast side into the city limits.
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Due to expanded enrollment, the university annexed this building and rushed construction in order to accommodate more students.
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When different reports pertained to overlapping populations, we retained the original study and annexed additional information from subsequent reports.
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They've annexed 800 acres, it has been re-zoned, the development and utility agreements are getting into place.
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In 1853, the Twenty-first and Twenty-second Wards were formed, and twenty years later, the city annexed the Twenty-third and Twenty-fourth Wards from Westchester County.
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The government decided to annex the neighboring territory to promote economic growth.
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Etymology
Annex comes from Latin parts ad- 'to' and nectere 'to tie', the same idea as in connect. So to annex something is to add or attach it to a larger thing, like adding a room to a house or a region to a country.