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Gerrymander

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

v. To divide (a geographic area) into voting districts so as to give unfair advantage to one party in elections.

n. The act, process, or an instance of gerrymandering.

n. A district or configuration of districts differing widely in size or population because of gerrymandering.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

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

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

n. The act of gerrymandering.

n. A voting district skewed by gerrymandering.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

v. 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.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. In United States politics, an arbitrary arrangement of the political divisions of a State, in disregard of the natural or proper boundaries as indicated by geography or position, made so as to give one party an unfair advantage in elections.

To district, as a State, by the unfair arrangement called a gerrymander; arrange arbitrarily and unfairly, as the boundaries of political divisions, for the sake of partisan advantage in elections.

To shift and manipulate, as facts, so as to force an agreement with a preconceived notion.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

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

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

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