Gerrymander

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  • transitive verb. To divide (a geographic area) into voting districts in a way that gives one party an unfair advantage in elections.
  • noun. The act, process, or an instance of gerrymandering.
  • noun. A district or configuration of districts whose boundaries are very irregular due to gerrymandering.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. In United States politics, an arbitrary arrangement of the political divisions of a State, in disregard of the natural or proper boundaries as indicated by geography or position, made so as to give one party an unfair advantage in elections.
  • To district, as a State, by the unfair arrangement called a gerrymander; arrange arbitrarily and unfairly, as the boundaries of political divisions, for the sake of partisan advantage in elections.
  • To shift and manipulate, as facts, so as to force an agreement with a preconceived notion.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • transitive verb. To divide (a State) into districts for the choice of representatives, in an unnatural and unfair way, with a view to give a political party an advantage over its opponent.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • verb. To divide a geographic area into voting districts in such a way as to give an unfair advantage to one party in an election.
  • verb. To draw dividing lines for other types of districts in an unintuitive way to favor a particular group or for other perceived gain.
  • noun. The act of gerrymandering.
  • noun. A voting district skewed by gerrymandering.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • verb. divide unfairly and to one's advantage; of voting districts
  • noun. an act of gerrymandering (dividing a voting area so as to give your own party an unfair advantage)
  • Word Usage
    "The term gerrymander comes from a political cartoon."
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