gerrymander
vt. 为政党利益改划选区 vi. 不公正地划分选区 n. 改变选举区
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The act of gerrymandering.
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A voting district skewed by gerrymandering.
贬义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 four counties while carving up neighborhoods in half.
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To divide a geographic area into voting districts in such a way as to give an unfair advantage to one party in an election.
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To draw dividing lines for other types of districts in an unintuitive way to favor a particular group or for other perceived gain.
贬义 及物 引申义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.
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To change the franchise or voting system in such a way as to give an unfair advantage to one party in an election.
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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.
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词源
Blend of Gerry + salamander, named after Elbridge Gerry, then governor of Massachusetts. Coined by the editors of the Boston Gazette in an 26 March 1812 article comparing the new electoral district boundary signed into law by Gerry to the shape of the mythological salamander. The original text was likely written by Nathan Hale and Benjamin and John Russell, accompanying a cartoon by Elkanah Tisdale. Despite Gerry's surname beginning with a hard G (/ɡ/), gerrymander is typically pronounced with a soft G (/dʒ/), as a spelling pronunciation.
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