A method of attempting to govern a metropolitan area as a whole by having the central city acquire the surrounding suburbs This system works best when suburban and central-city residents are about the same in race, social class, and political interest
An addition to property by the act of joining or uniting one thing to another, as in attaching personal property to real property and thereby creating a fixture For example, a sink becomes a fixture when it is annexed to the plumbing outlet
The act of adding, joining and attaching one thing to another With respect to the annexing of land, from time to time municipalities legally incorporate into the existing town or city limits a certain amount of land or territory outside their legal boundary This may be done to consolidate two governments into one or perhaps to increase property tax revenue for the municipality
When a city or district attaches additional territory to its boundary Property owners will benefit from increased municipal services, cities/districts will gain more revneue through situs taxes
The incorporation of land into an existing community that results in a change in the community's boundary Annexation generally refers to the inclusion of newly incorporated land but can also involve the transfer of land from one municipality to another
The process of incorporating an area of land not currently within the jurisdiction of a local government's governing authority for the purpose of including that area within the government's jurisdiction
The act of annexing; process of attaching, adding, or appending; the act of connecting; union; as, the annexation of Texas to the United States, or of chattels to the freehold
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"