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Anschluss (AN-shloos) noun

A political union, especially the one unifying Nazi Germany and Austria in 1938.

[German, annexation, from anschliessen, to enclose, annex : an, on (from Middle High German ane, from Old High German ana.) + schliessen, to close, from Middle High German sliezen, from Old High German sliozan.]

"I am hopeful that we can get beyond the divisiveness of the last year without a return to the factionalism that made Reform such an easy target for Buchanan's Anschluss." Lenora Fulani, Will Reform Party Survive Splits?, Seattle Post - Intelligencer, Aug 8, 2000.

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