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Definition of Gerrymander
1. Noun. An act of gerrymandering (dividing a voting area so as to give your own party an unfair advantage).
2. Verb. Divide unfairly and to one's advantage; of voting districts.
Definition of Gerrymander
1. v. t. 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.
Definition of Gerrymander
1. Verb. (transitive pejorative) To divide a geographic area into voting districts in such a way as to give an unfair advantage to one party in an election. ¹
2. Verb. (transitive pejorative 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. ¹
3. Noun. (pejorative) The act of gerrymandering. ¹
4. Noun. (pejorative) A voting district skewed by gerrymandering. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Gerrymander
1. [v -ED, -ING, -S]
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Literary usage of Gerrymander
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A History of the People of the United States: From the Revolution to the by John Bach McMaster (1895)
"THE gerrymander. gains in the Senate that, on joint ballot, their majority in
the Legislature was two. The Massachusetts election was no ordinary one. ..."
2. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Universal Reference Library Comprising the ...by Scientific American, inc by Scientific American, inc (1905)
"As counties are fair models of what election districts should be, the gerrymander
is generally worked by disregarding them; but the following illustration ..."
3. History of the American People by Willis Mason ( West (1918)
"... play it, was the gerrymander. It is- the custom to choose congressmen by
districts. A State, therefore, is partitioned by its legislature into as many ..."
4. The Lives of William McKinley and Garret A. Hobart, Republican Presidential by Henry Benajah Russell (1896)
"The Last Democratic gerrymander to " Down " McKinley — The Democratic Gibraltar
of the State Attached to his District — Defeat of McKinley the only Hope of ..."
5. Primary Elections: A Study of the History and Tendencies of Primary Election by Charles Edward Merriam (1908)
"Where the unit is made the precinct, there is comparatively little possibility
of a gerrymander in the interest of any faction seeking to obtain or continue ..."
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