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Preparing your learning path…To take control of territory and make it part of another state or administrative area.
Verb stress falls on NEX; the noun is usually stressed on AN.
The empire annexed the coastal province.
Officials feared the country might annex the island.
The town recently annexed several surrounding neighborhoods.
Annex commonly implies unilateral incorporation of land; it should not be confused with merely occupying territory.
With land, annex takes a direct object: annex a region. In news reports it may suggest a disputed change of sovereignty.
What does it mean to annex a territory?
Please annex the survey results to your report.
The lease annexes a map of the property.
They annexed another schedule to the contract.
Formal usage; attach or append is usually more natural in casual correspondence.
For paperwork, use annex X to Y. In everyday emails, attach X to Y is more common.
Which sentence uses annex for documents?
