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Pronunciation guide for gerrymander
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- Practice the English pronunciation of gerrymander with real speech in context.
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- Black Poems
to gerrymander districts, and to make it so that there's only
- Definition summary
- (transitive, derogatory) To divide a geographic area into voting districts in such a way as to give an unfair advantage to one party in an election.
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How to pronounce gerrymander
Black Poems
to gerrymander districts, and to make it so that there's only
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A Deep Dive Into “gerrymander”
Meaning
- [Verb]
- (transitive, derogatory) To divide a geographic area into voting districts in such a way as to give an unfair advantage to one party in an election.
- (transitive, derogatory, by extension) To draw dividing lines for other types of districts in an unintuitive way to favor a particular group or for other perceived gain.
- (transitive, derogatory, by extension) To change the franchise or voting system in such a way as to give an unfair advantage to one party in an election.
- (transitive, derogatory, by extension, chiefly UK and Ireland) To deliberately bring in voters of one's own party or displace voters of another party from a voting district in such a way as to give an unfair advantage to one party in an election.
- [Noun]
- (derogatory) The act of gerrymandering.
- (derogatory) A voting district skewed by gerrymandering.
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