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US
/ˈdʒɛɹiˌmændɝ/
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[ UK /dʒˈɛɹɪmˌɑːndɐ/ ]
[ UK /dʒˈɛɹɪmˌɑːndɐ/ ]
NOUN
- an act of gerrymandering (dividing a voting area so as to give your own party an unfair advantage)
VERB
- divide unfairly and to one's advantage; of voting districts
How To Use gerrymander In A Sentence
- It's possible the court will find that this time the gerrymanderers in North Carolina have simply gone too far.
- I sure wish I could agree with your prediction but America has been gerrymandered into easily predictable red or blue districts.
- All viable candidates are likely to be far to the left of the regional average in lefty-gerrymandered districts and far to the right in right-gerrymandered districts. Matthew Yglesias » Busting More Gerrymandering Myths
- If you're afraid of what a neutral redistricting will do, just imagine what a genuinely partisan gerrymander could accomplish.
- The only reason U.S. Senate seats stayed competitive is that the politicians cannot gerrymander state lines.
- Wary of democracy, he helped enshrine a rural gerrymander in the Legislative Council of which he was a member 1890-1916.
- There was a minute where he looked like a decent guy, but he recovered fast and is now set in gerrymandered concrete for as long as he wants the gig. Brian Baird led junket to South Pole on taxpayers' dime (Jack Bog's Blog)
- The union did not gerrymander the candidate selection. Times, Sunday Times
- This is a government that blatantly indulged in open gerrymander, for example the re-allocation of defence force votes among surrounding marginal seats.
- The Court majority offers the muddy suggestion that racial gerrymandering will pass muster if the resulting districts are not too aggressively indifferent to "compactness, contiguousness, geographical boundaries, or political subdivisions. Districting By Pigmentation