"annexation" in the noun sense
1. annexation, appropriation
incorporation by joining or uniting
2. annexation
the formal act of acquiring something (especially territory) by conquest or occupation
"the French annexation of Madagascar as a colony in 1896"
"a protectorate has frequently been a first step to annexation"
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