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Look up: gerrymander

  1. gerrymander
    [n] - an act of gerrymandering (dividing a voting area so as to give your own party an unfair advantage) 2. [v] - divide unfairly and to one`s advantage
    Found on http://www.webdictionary.co.uk/definitio

  2. gerrymander
    In politics, to rearrange constituency boundaries to give an unfair advantage to the ruling party. The term derives from US politician Elbridge Gerry (1744-1814), who in 1812, while governor of...
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/local/20688

  3. Gerrymander
    Ger`ry·man'der transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Gerrymandered ; present participle & verbal noun Gerrymandering .] To divide (a State) into districts for the choice of represen...
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/G/23

  4. gerrymander
    noun an act of gerrymandering (dividing a voting area so as to give your own party an unfair advantage)
    Found on http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/web

  5. gerrymander
    verb divide unfairly and to one`s advantage; of voting districts
    Found on http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/web

  6. Gerrymander
    • (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.
    Found on http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning

  7. gerrymander
    Manipulating constituency boundaries for partisan election purposes. government. A specialized group of individuals, institutions and agencies which make and enforce public decisions.
    Found on http://polisci.nelson.com/glossary.html

  8. gerrymander
    gerrymander (jer'ēmăn"dur, ger–) , in politics, rearrangement of voting districts so as to favor the party in power. The objective is to create as many districts as possible in areas of known support and to concentrate the opposition's strength into as few districts as poss...
    Found on http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/history/A0

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