annex

name

1. A census-designated place in Malheur County, Oregon, United States.

noun

Etymology: Borrowed from French annexe, from Latin annexus. More at Etymology 2. See also an-.

1. An addition, an extension.

   “6.2.3.2.2. For aircraft having pressurized cabins, the disinsection of cabins and annexes, cockpit and annexes, is to be carried out after the embarkation of passengers and crew and the closing of the doors and windscreen[.]”

2. An appendix to a book or document.
3. An addition or extension to a building.
4. An addition to the territory of a country or state, from a neighbouring country or state, normally by military force.

verb

Etymology: From Middle English annexen, anexen, from Old French annexer (“to join”), from Medieval Latin annexāre, infinitive of annexō, frequentative of Latin annectō (“bind to”), from ad (“to”) + nectō (“tie, bind”). Compare the rare annect. Doublet of adnex.

1. To add something to another thing, especially territory; to incorporate.

   “The ancient city of Petra was annexed by Rome.”

   “In 1910, he returned to Korea, which had by this time been annexed by Japan.”

2. To attach or connect, as a consequence, condition, etc.

   “to annex a penalty to a prohibition, or punishment to guilt”

   “Annexed to my feeling of guilt was a sense of having let my familiy down.”

3. To join; to be united.
4. To take something without permission (informal)

   “I returned to resume my place but my assistant had already annexed my chair.”