gerrymander
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Pyles discusses such words as stogy, gerrymander, filibuster, bunkum, sundae, blizzard, ballyhoo, and "the most famous of all Americanisms, O.K." (his discussion of its origin must be supplemented by Allen Walker Read's later reports (1963), summarized in the one-volume Mencken).
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- transitive verb To divide (a geographic area) into voting districts so as to give unfair advantage to one party in elections.
- noun The act, process, or an instance of gerrymandering.
- noun A district or configuration of districts differing widely in size or population because of gerrymandering.
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Pyles discusses such words as stogy, gerrymander, filibuster, bunkum, sundae, blizzard, ballyhoo, and "the most famous of all Americanisms, O.K." (his discussion of its origin must be supplemented by Allen Walker Read's later reports (1963), summarized in the one-volume Mencken).
— VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol II No 3 -
It's almost like a gerrymander, which is a way of carefully defining different media niches that didn't exist as readily even just one or two presidential cycles ago.
— CNN Transcript Mar 6, 2004 -
The police power has often been misused for such purposes; the gerrymander is another clever method of manipulating the results of elections.
— Problems of Conduct -
When someone leaves, the apartment goes market. if you think that anything is done in NJ, especially hudson county, that does NOT involve keeping the welfare machine firmly controlled by the party currently in charge does the term gerrymander mean anything to you? if you think that anything is done in NJ, especially hudson county, that does NOT involve keeping the welfare machine firmly controlled by the party currently in charge, then you are much more stupid than i give you credit. seriously, how f'n stupid are you? how long have you been living in NJ? do you not look around and watch how the taxes are distributed in this state? hoboken is a tiny version of this entire state. you are one big f'n idiot. and you can look up "gerrymander" on google you twit.
— Hoboken 411 -
The exaggeration of majorities -- The disfranchisement of minorities -- The under-representation of majorities -- A "game of dice" -- The importance of boundaries -- The "gerrymander" -- The modern gerrymander -- The "block" vote -- The election of the London County Council -- The election of aldermen of the London County Council -- The election of Representative
— Proportional Representation A Study in Methods of Election
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- After Elbridge Gerry + (sala)mander (from the shape of an election district created while Gerry was governor of Massachusetts).
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/ (jĕrˈē-mănˌdər, gĕrˈ-)/
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