Gerrymander

Quick meaning: Gerrymander is a verb meaning (derogatory) The act of gerrymandering.

Meaning

(derogatory) The act of gerrymandering.

More Meanings

1. (derogatory) A voting district skewed by gerrymandering.
2. (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.
3. (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.
4. (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.
5. (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.

Example Sentences

[Will] O’Neill isn’t necessarily wrong. Democrats readily concede that they are betraying principles of good governance in trying to gerrymander California.

[The Reform Bill's] main purpose will be so to gerrymander the electorate as to give the greatest possible assistance to the Radical party at the next election.

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.

Fermanagh Council even went so far as to create the new village of Donagh in an attempt to move Catholics out of Newtownbutler, four miles away, so unionists could gerrymander a majority.

Word Forms

• gerrymanders
• gerrymandering
• gerrymandered

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include jerrymander, mander, misdistribute, overvote, misallot, misrule.

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