Definitions for Gerrymander
ˈdʒɛr ɪˌmæn dər, ˈgɛr-ger·ry·man·der

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1. gerrymanderverb

   an act of gerrymandering (dividing a voting area so as to give your own party an unfair advantage)

2. gerrymanderverb

   divide unfairly and to one's advantage; of voting districts

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1. gerrymandernoun

   The act of gerrymandering.

   By this iniquitous practice, which is known as the gerrymander, the party in a minority in each State is allowed to get only about one-half or one-quarter of its proper share of representation.

2. gerrymandernoun

   A voting district skewed by gerrymandering.

   Any citizen looking at a map of district 12 could immediately tell that it was a gerrymander because of the ridiculous way it cut across 4 counties while carving up neighborhoods in half.

3. gerrymanderverb

   To divide a geographic area into voting districts in such a way as to give an unfair advantage to one party in an election.

4. gerrymanderverb

   To draw dividing lines for other types of districts in an unintuitive way to favor a particular group or for other perceived gain.

   The superintendent helped gerrymander the school district lines in order to keep the children of the wealthy gated community in the better school all the way across town.

5. Etymology: From w:Elbridge Gerry + salamander, from the similarity in shape to a salamander of an electoral district created when Gerry was the governor of Massachusetts

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1. gerrymander

   In representative democracies, gerrymandering (, originally ) is the political manipulation of electoral district boundaries with the intent to create undue advantage for a party, group, or socioeconomic class within the constituency. The manipulation may involve "cracking" (diluting the voting power of the opposing party's supporters across many districts) or "packing" (concentrating the opposing party's voting power in one district to reduce their voting power in other districts). Gerrymandering can also be used to protect incumbents. Wayne Dawkins describes it as politicians picking their voters instead of voters picking their politicians.The term gerrymandering is named after American politician Elbridge Gerry, Vice President of the United States at the time of his death, who, as governor of Massachusetts in 1812, signed a bill that created a partisan district in the Boston area that was compared to the shape of a mythological salamander. The term has negative connotations, and gerrymandering is almost always considered a corruption of the democratic process. The resulting district is known as a gerrymander (). The word is also a verb for the process.

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1. gerrymander

   Gerrymandering is a political practice by which electoral district boundaries are manipulated with the intention of favorearing one political party or group over others. It typically involves redrawing the boundaries to concentrate or dilute votes in a manner that influences electoral outcomes, often aimed at achieving a continuous political advantage for the controlling party.

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1. Gerrymanderverb

   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

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Gerrymander

   jer-i-man′der, v.t. (Amer.) to rearrange the voting districts in the interests of a particular party or candidate: to manipulate facts, arguments, &c. so as to reach undue conclusions.—n. an arrangement of the above nature. [Formed from the name of Governor Elbridge Gerry (1744-1814) and Salamander, from the likeness to that animal of the gerrymandered map of Massachusetts in 1811.]

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1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of Gerrymander in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

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   The numerical value of Gerrymander in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

Examples of Gerrymander in a Sentence

1. Michael Li:

   ( In South Florida) the problem with white Democrats is they tend to live near white Republicans, sometimes in the same house, so unless you're gerrymandering down somebody's bed... South Florida's really hard to gerrymander white Democrats when there aren't that many of them, south Florida's much more efficient because of residential segregation to target communities of color. And so you really can't politically gerrymander in South Florida without targeting communities of color, which gets you right into race based claims.

2. Kerry Benninghoff:

   The LRC's preliminary House map is an extreme partisan gerrymander, it is a danger to our system of government that upends established norms and the emphasis on local control and local voices that Pennsylvanians hold dear.

3. Michael Li:

   The fact that this gerrymander is achieved at the expense of people of color is not surprising.

4. Daily Kos:

   To me, what's amazing is that we continue to see this level shift across the country, a 20-point swing, that puts about 123 Republican seats potentially in play, at that point, very little is off the map, and getting the 24 seats we need to take back the House is suddenly a real possibility, GOP gerrymander or not.

5. Democrats The new census:

   Some elected officials are afraid that if they embrace a more diverse Save America, they will lose their power, those same people are willing to weaponize the new Census data to gerrymander the vote and rig the system against Black and Brown Americans.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=Gerrymander
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Gerrymander
3. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerrymander
4. ^ ChatGPT
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5. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Gerrymander
6. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=Gerrymander