Definition of gerrymander in English:

gerrymander

(British jerrymander)

verb ˈdʒɛrɪˌmandəˈdʒɛriˌmændər

[with object]often as noun gerrymandering

1Manipulate the boundaries of (an electoral constituency) so as to favour one party or class.
（为助某政党或阶级）对（选区）重新划分
Example sentencesExamples
- Republicans dominate the Ohio legislature thanks to a heavily gerrymandered crazy quilt of rigged districts, and to a moribund Ohio Democratic party.
- States using an independent approach produced more than twice as many competitive races for state legislatures than did gerrymandered states.
- A way should be found to create an upper house, and to so gerrymander the provinces that it over-represents the Sunni minority.
- We will cut any tax, grease any campaign contributor and gerrymander any state to advance the cause of a Republican congressional majority.
- I sure wish I could agree with your prediction but America has been gerrymandered into easily predictable red or blue districts.
- He gerrymandered electoral districts in order to control the results and sought to regulate the press.
- There has been a lot of gerrymandering of the constituency boundaries.
- They are not in a position where they can gerrymander constituencies.
- Ironically, the Syrians originally gerrymandered the north in 2000 so as to give an advantage to the Sunnis over the Christians.
- The rich and powerful in this country manipulate elections, and gerrymander voting districts.
- Texas political operatives pointed out that five Democratic representatives are fighting for their lives in new districts gerrymandered by the GOP.
- When a newspaper company owns a cluster, it will likely gerrymander circulation areas and eliminate overlapping areas of circulation.
- With the electoral boundaries gerrymandered in parallel, many nationalist council majorities were wiped out.
- Mercifully, the official exhibition was not gerrymandered into national sections or pretentiously titled thematic subdivisions.
- He said the party had impoverished its supporters and predicted that they would turn against the ruling party, no matter how the constituency boundaries were gerrymandered.
- If anything, it reinforced perceptions that the board and the ANC were simply gerrymandering provincial boundaries to suit short-term political ends.
- Politicians have come to see manipulation of the vote much as they see gerrymandering boundaries of voting districts - all part of the electoral game.
- In the last elections, the ruling family shamelessly gerrymandered electoral districts to dilute the Shia vote.
- The only reason U.S. Senate seats stayed competitive is that the politicians cannot gerrymander state lines.
- Another issue that has caused problems between Congress and the White House has been gerrymandering and the mal-apportionment of Congressional constituencies.
Synonyms
manipulate, arrange fraudulently, interfere with, influence, juggle, massage, distort, misrepresent, pervert, manoeuvre, tamper with, tinker with, doctor
1. 1.1 Achieve (a result) by gerrymandering.
  靠重划选区获得（某种结果）
  an attempt to gerrymander the election result
  Example sentencesExamples
  A gerrymandered election does not make for a democracy.

noun ˈdʒɛrɪˌmandəˈdʒɛriˌmændər

An instance of gerrymandering.
Example sentencesExamples
- Despite an electoral gerrymander, the opposition managed to more than double its parliamentary seats from 22 to 45.
- This is a government that blatantly indulged in open gerrymander, for example the re-allocation of defence force votes among surrounding marginal seats.
- I'm not crazy about the idea of Republicans using redistricting reform to knock off Democrats while ramming through the most outlandish gerrymanders in the states they control.
- In a gerrymander in 1923, Unionists wrested control from Nationalists, an arrangement reinforced in the 1930s.
- The gerrymander would be even more pronounced with the non-voting stock comprising just 870 million out of 3.1 billion - or just 28.9 per cent of the total.
- The deliberate sectarian gerrymander that the Northern state was in the first instance has now disappeared, eroded by demographics.
- As Polsby points out, the art of the gerrymander is another instance with respect to which the constitutional order has been turned on its head.
- The Green's control of the council, while significant, was in fact an own goal created by the Labor Party's failed gerrymander.
- He said the Government's electoral reforms would create a gerrymander, where electoral boundaries are created to give one party an advantage.
- The Labor Party has thrown one of its basic principles out the window by now supporting the gerrymander in Western Australia.
- Despite a gerrymander, the number of opposition seats rose from 22 to 45, mostly at the expense of the ruling party.
- Nationalist resentment at the gerrymander was amplified by the determination of Unionists to define the centre of the city, enclosed within its plantation walls, as a loyalist public space.
- There is also the issue of the potential for an institutionalised gerrymander, as recipients of various forms of government transfer payments outnumber those who actually pay any income tax.
- They say the current Congressional map is just an old Democratic gerrymander.
- Labor held office, intermittently, in a number of States, but State election seemed as remote as federal victory - and only partly because of gerrymanders.
- One of the assumptions many people have of his long time in power was that it was only able to occur because the gerrymander kept Labor out of office.
- Umno continues to benefit from a gerrymander that favours rural Malay seats on peninsular Malaya as well as Sabah and Sarawak in northern Borneo.
- If you're afraid of what a neutral redistricting will do, just imagine what a genuinely partisan gerrymander could accomplish.
- Wary of democracy, he helped enshrine a rural gerrymander in the Legislative Council of which he was a member 1890-1916.
- It also polls well under 5 per cent and could throw up the closest thing to a gerrymander if the previous election's turnout is repeated.

Derivatives

gerrymanderer

nounˌdʒɛrɪˈmandərəˈdʒɛriˌmænd(ə)rər

Without it, gerrymanderers armed with sophisticated technology and facing few real constraints could run wild, causing minority representation in Congress to shrink dramatically.
Example sentencesExamples
- It's possible the court will find that this time the gerrymanderers in North Carolina have simply gone too far.
- A successful gerrymanderer begins by assuming that his party has a certain amount of support statewide; he then apportions that support strategically among individual districts.
- I must admit it does seem like a fitting end to the political career of a gerrymanderer.
- The gerrymanderers have done a very good job of picking their voters such that there are very few competitive districts.

Origin

Early 19th century: from the name of Governor Elbridge Gerry of Massachusetts + salamander, from the supposed similarity between a salamander and the shape of a new voting district on a map drawn when he was in office (1812), the creation of which was felt to favour his party; the map (with claws, wings, and fangs added) was published in the Boston Weekly Messenger, with the title The Gerry-Mander.

Half-man, half-lizard—that is a gerrymander. In political contexts gerrymandering is manipulating the boundaries of electoral districts to give an advantage to a particular party or class. The term was coined when Elbridge Gerry, governor of Massachusetts in 1812, created a new voting district that appeared to favour his party. Because the shape of this new district vaguely resembled the outline of a salamander, a map, embellished with claws, wings, and fangs, was published in the Boston Weekly Messenger, with the title The Gerry-Mander.

Definition of gerrymander in US English:

gerrymander

verbˈdʒɛriˌmændərˈjerēˌmandər

[with object]often as noun gerrymandering

1Manipulate the boundaries of (an electoral constituency) so as to favor one party or class.
（为助某政党或阶级）对（选区）重新划分
Example sentencesExamples
- Texas political operatives pointed out that five Democratic representatives are fighting for their lives in new districts gerrymandered by the GOP.
- States using an independent approach produced more than twice as many competitive races for state legislatures than did gerrymandered states.
- The rich and powerful in this country manipulate elections, and gerrymander voting districts.
- Politicians have come to see manipulation of the vote much as they see gerrymandering boundaries of voting districts - all part of the electoral game.
- Mercifully, the official exhibition was not gerrymandered into national sections or pretentiously titled thematic subdivisions.
- There has been a lot of gerrymandering of the constituency boundaries.
- The only reason U.S. Senate seats stayed competitive is that the politicians cannot gerrymander state lines.
- In the last elections, the ruling family shamelessly gerrymandered electoral districts to dilute the Shia vote.
- A way should be found to create an upper house, and to so gerrymander the provinces that it over-represents the Sunni minority.
- Another issue that has caused problems between Congress and the White House has been gerrymandering and the mal-apportionment of Congressional constituencies.
- We will cut any tax, grease any campaign contributor and gerrymander any state to advance the cause of a Republican congressional majority.
- If anything, it reinforced perceptions that the board and the ANC were simply gerrymandering provincial boundaries to suit short-term political ends.
- When a newspaper company owns a cluster, it will likely gerrymander circulation areas and eliminate overlapping areas of circulation.
- He said the party had impoverished its supporters and predicted that they would turn against the ruling party, no matter how the constituency boundaries were gerrymandered.
- With the electoral boundaries gerrymandered in parallel, many nationalist council majorities were wiped out.
- Ironically, the Syrians originally gerrymandered the north in 2000 so as to give an advantage to the Sunnis over the Christians.
- Republicans dominate the Ohio legislature thanks to a heavily gerrymandered crazy quilt of rigged districts, and to a moribund Ohio Democratic party.
- They are not in a position where they can gerrymander constituencies.
- I sure wish I could agree with your prediction but America has been gerrymandered into easily predictable red or blue districts.
- He gerrymandered electoral districts in order to control the results and sought to regulate the press.
Synonyms
manipulate, arrange fraudulently, interfere with, influence, juggle, massage, distort, misrepresent, pervert, manoeuvre, tamper with, tinker with, doctor
1. 1.1 Achieve (a result) by manipulating the boundaries of an electoral constituency.
  a total freedom to gerrymander the results they want
  重划选区以获得所求结果的绝对自由权。
  Example sentencesExamples
  A gerrymandered election does not make for a democracy.

nounˈdʒɛriˌmændərˈjerēˌmandər

An instance of gerrymandering.
Example sentencesExamples
- The deliberate sectarian gerrymander that the Northern state was in the first instance has now disappeared, eroded by demographics.
- He said the Government's electoral reforms would create a gerrymander, where electoral boundaries are created to give one party an advantage.
- There is also the issue of the potential for an institutionalised gerrymander, as recipients of various forms of government transfer payments outnumber those who actually pay any income tax.
- In a gerrymander in 1923, Unionists wrested control from Nationalists, an arrangement reinforced in the 1930s.
- Despite an electoral gerrymander, the opposition managed to more than double its parliamentary seats from 22 to 45.
- Umno continues to benefit from a gerrymander that favours rural Malay seats on peninsular Malaya as well as Sabah and Sarawak in northern Borneo.
- This is a government that blatantly indulged in open gerrymander, for example the re-allocation of defence force votes among surrounding marginal seats.
- Despite a gerrymander, the number of opposition seats rose from 22 to 45, mostly at the expense of the ruling party.
- The Green's control of the council, while significant, was in fact an own goal created by the Labor Party's failed gerrymander.
- One of the assumptions many people have of his long time in power was that it was only able to occur because the gerrymander kept Labor out of office.
- Nationalist resentment at the gerrymander was amplified by the determination of Unionists to define the centre of the city, enclosed within its plantation walls, as a loyalist public space.
- They say the current Congressional map is just an old Democratic gerrymander.
- I'm not crazy about the idea of Republicans using redistricting reform to knock off Democrats while ramming through the most outlandish gerrymanders in the states they control.
- Wary of democracy, he helped enshrine a rural gerrymander in the Legislative Council of which he was a member 1890-1916.
- The Labor Party has thrown one of its basic principles out the window by now supporting the gerrymander in Western Australia.
- Labor held office, intermittently, in a number of States, but State election seemed as remote as federal victory - and only partly because of gerrymanders.
- It also polls well under 5 per cent and could throw up the closest thing to a gerrymander if the previous election's turnout is repeated.
- If you're afraid of what a neutral redistricting will do, just imagine what a genuinely partisan gerrymander could accomplish.
- The gerrymander would be even more pronounced with the non-voting stock comprising just 870 million out of 3.1 billion - or just 28.9 per cent of the total.
- As Polsby points out, the art of the gerrymander is another instance with respect to which the constitutional order has been turned on its head.

Origin

Early 19th century: from the name of Governor Elbridge Gerry of Massachusetts + salamander, from the supposed similarity between a salamander and the shape of a new voting district on a map drawn when he was in office (1812), the creation of which was felt to favor his party; the map (with claws, wings, and fangs added) was published in the Boston Weekly Messenger, with the title The Gerry-Mander.

单词	gerrymander
释义	Definition of gerrymander in English: gerrymander (British jerrymander) verb ˈdʒɛrɪˌmandəˈdʒɛriˌmændər [with object]often as noun gerrymandering 1Manipulate the boundaries of (an electoral constituency) so as to favour one party or class. （为助某政党或阶级）对（选区）重新划分 Example sentencesExamples Republicans dominate the Ohio legislature thanks to a heavily gerrymandered crazy quilt of rigged districts, and to a moribund Ohio Democratic party. States using an independent approach produced more than twice as many competitive races for state legislatures than did gerrymandered states. A way should be found to create an upper house, and to so gerrymander the provinces that it over-represents the Sunni minority. We will cut any tax, grease any campaign contributor and gerrymander any state to advance the cause of a Republican congressional majority. I sure wish I could agree with your prediction but America has been gerrymandered into easily predictable red or blue districts. He gerrymandered electoral districts in order to control the results and sought to regulate the press. There has been a lot of gerrymandering of the constituency boundaries. They are not in a position where they can gerrymander constituencies. Ironically, the Syrians originally gerrymandered the north in 2000 so as to give an advantage to the Sunnis over the Christians. The rich and powerful in this country manipulate elections, and gerrymander voting districts. Texas political operatives pointed out that five Democratic representatives are fighting for their lives in new districts gerrymandered by the GOP. When a newspaper company owns a cluster, it will likely gerrymander circulation areas and eliminate overlapping areas of circulation. With the electoral boundaries gerrymandered in parallel, many nationalist council majorities were wiped out. Mercifully, the official exhibition was not gerrymandered into national sections or pretentiously titled thematic subdivisions. He said the party had impoverished its supporters and predicted that they would turn against the ruling party, no matter how the constituency boundaries were gerrymandered. If anything, it reinforced perceptions that the board and the ANC were simply gerrymandering provincial boundaries to suit short-term political ends. Politicians have come to see manipulation of the vote much as they see gerrymandering boundaries of voting districts - all part of the electoral game. In the last elections, the ruling family shamelessly gerrymandered electoral districts to dilute the Shia vote. The only reason U.S. Senate seats stayed competitive is that the politicians cannot gerrymander state lines. Another issue that has caused problems between Congress and the White House has been gerrymandering and the mal-apportionment of Congressional constituencies. Synonyms manipulate, arrange fraudulently, interfere with, influence, juggle, massage, distort, misrepresent, pervert, manoeuvre, tamper with, tinker with, doctor 1.1 Achieve (a result) by gerrymandering. 靠重划选区获得（某种结果） an attempt to gerrymander the election result Example sentencesExamples A gerrymandered election does not make for a democracy. noun ˈdʒɛrɪˌmandəˈdʒɛriˌmændər An instance of gerrymandering. Example sentencesExamples Despite an electoral gerrymander, the opposition managed to more than double its parliamentary seats from 22 to 45. This is a government that blatantly indulged in open gerrymander, for example the re-allocation of defence force votes among surrounding marginal seats. I'm not crazy about the idea of Republicans using redistricting reform to knock off Democrats while ramming through the most outlandish gerrymanders in the states they control. In a gerrymander in 1923, Unionists wrested control from Nationalists, an arrangement reinforced in the 1930s. The gerrymander would be even more pronounced with the non-voting stock comprising just 870 million out of 3.1 billion - or just 28.9 per cent of the total. The deliberate sectarian gerrymander that the Northern state was in the first instance has now disappeared, eroded by demographics. As Polsby points out, the art of the gerrymander is another instance with respect to which the constitutional order has been turned on its head. The Green's control of the council, while significant, was in fact an own goal created by the Labor Party's failed gerrymander. He said the Government's electoral reforms would create a gerrymander, where electoral boundaries are created to give one party an advantage. The Labor Party has thrown one of its basic principles out the window by now supporting the gerrymander in Western Australia. Despite a gerrymander, the number of opposition seats rose from 22 to 45, mostly at the expense of the ruling party. Nationalist resentment at the gerrymander was amplified by the determination of Unionists to define the centre of the city, enclosed within its plantation walls, as a loyalist public space. There is also the issue of the potential for an institutionalised gerrymander, as recipients of various forms of government transfer payments outnumber those who actually pay any income tax. They say the current Congressional map is just an old Democratic gerrymander. Labor held office, intermittently, in a number of States, but State election seemed as remote as federal victory - and only partly because of gerrymanders. One of the assumptions many people have of his long time in power was that it was only able to occur because the gerrymander kept Labor out of office. Umno continues to benefit from a gerrymander that favours rural Malay seats on peninsular Malaya as well as Sabah and Sarawak in northern Borneo. If you're afraid of what a neutral redistricting will do, just imagine what a genuinely partisan gerrymander could accomplish. Wary of democracy, he helped enshrine a rural gerrymander in the Legislative Council of which he was a member 1890-1916. It also polls well under 5 per cent and could throw up the closest thing to a gerrymander if the previous election's turnout is repeated. Derivatives gerrymanderer nounˌdʒɛrɪˈmandərəˈdʒɛriˌmænd(ə)rər Without it, gerrymanderers armed with sophisticated technology and facing few real constraints could run wild, causing minority representation in Congress to shrink dramatically. Example sentencesExamples It's possible the court will find that this time the gerrymanderers in North Carolina have simply gone too far. A successful gerrymanderer begins by assuming that his party has a certain amount of support statewide; he then apportions that support strategically among individual districts. I must admit it does seem like a fitting end to the political career of a gerrymanderer. The gerrymanderers have done a very good job of picking their voters such that there are very few competitive districts. Origin Early 19th century: from the name of Governor Elbridge Gerry of Massachusetts + salamander, from the supposed similarity between a salamander and the shape of a new voting district on a map drawn when he was in office (1812), the creation of which was felt to favour his party; the map (with claws, wings, and fangs added) was published in the Boston Weekly Messenger, with the title The Gerry-Mander. Half-man, half-lizard—that is a gerrymander. In political contexts gerrymandering is manipulating the boundaries of electoral districts to give an advantage to a particular party or class. The term was coined when Elbridge Gerry, governor of Massachusetts in 1812, created a new voting district that appeared to favour his party. Because the shape of this new district vaguely resembled the outline of a salamander, a map, embellished with claws, wings, and fangs, was published in the Boston Weekly Messenger, with the title The Gerry-Mander. Definition of gerrymander in US English: gerrymander verbˈdʒɛriˌmændərˈjerēˌmandər [with object]often as noun gerrymandering 1Manipulate the boundaries of (an electoral constituency) so as to favor one party or class. （为助某政党或阶级）对（选区）重新划分 Example sentencesExamples Texas political operatives pointed out that five Democratic representatives are fighting for their lives in new districts gerrymandered by the GOP. States using an independent approach produced more than twice as many competitive races for state legislatures than did gerrymandered states. The rich and powerful in this country manipulate elections, and gerrymander voting districts. Politicians have come to see manipulation of the vote much as they see gerrymandering boundaries of voting districts - all part of the electoral game. Mercifully, the official exhibition was not gerrymandered into national sections or pretentiously titled thematic subdivisions. There has been a lot of gerrymandering of the constituency boundaries. The only reason U.S. Senate seats stayed competitive is that the politicians cannot gerrymander state lines. In the last elections, the ruling family shamelessly gerrymandered electoral districts to dilute the Shia vote. A way should be found to create an upper house, and to so gerrymander the provinces that it over-represents the Sunni minority. Another issue that has caused problems between Congress and the White House has been gerrymandering and the mal-apportionment of Congressional constituencies. We will cut any tax, grease any campaign contributor and gerrymander any state to advance the cause of a Republican congressional majority. If anything, it reinforced perceptions that the board and the ANC were simply gerrymandering provincial boundaries to suit short-term political ends. When a newspaper company owns a cluster, it will likely gerrymander circulation areas and eliminate overlapping areas of circulation. He said the party had impoverished its supporters and predicted that they would turn against the ruling party, no matter how the constituency boundaries were gerrymandered. With the electoral boundaries gerrymandered in parallel, many nationalist council majorities were wiped out. Ironically, the Syrians originally gerrymandered the north in 2000 so as to give an advantage to the Sunnis over the Christians. Republicans dominate the Ohio legislature thanks to a heavily gerrymandered crazy quilt of rigged districts, and to a moribund Ohio Democratic party. They are not in a position where they can gerrymander constituencies. I sure wish I could agree with your prediction but America has been gerrymandered into easily predictable red or blue districts. He gerrymandered electoral districts in order to control the results and sought to regulate the press. Synonyms manipulate, arrange fraudulently, interfere with, influence, juggle, massage, distort, misrepresent, pervert, manoeuvre, tamper with, tinker with, doctor 1.1 Achieve (a result) by manipulating the boundaries of an electoral constituency. a total freedom to gerrymander the results they want 重划选区以获得所求结果的绝对自由权。 Example sentencesExamples A gerrymandered election does not make for a democracy. nounˈdʒɛriˌmændərˈjerēˌmandər An instance of gerrymandering. Example sentencesExamples The deliberate sectarian gerrymander that the Northern state was in the first instance has now disappeared, eroded by demographics. He said the Government's electoral reforms would create a gerrymander, where electoral boundaries are created to give one party an advantage. There is also the issue of the potential for an institutionalised gerrymander, as recipients of various forms of government transfer payments outnumber those who actually pay any income tax. In a gerrymander in 1923, Unionists wrested control from Nationalists, an arrangement reinforced in the 1930s. Despite an electoral gerrymander, the opposition managed to more than double its parliamentary seats from 22 to 45. Umno continues to benefit from a gerrymander that favours rural Malay seats on peninsular Malaya as well as Sabah and Sarawak in northern Borneo. This is a government that blatantly indulged in open gerrymander, for example the re-allocation of defence force votes among surrounding marginal seats. Despite a gerrymander, the number of opposition seats rose from 22 to 45, mostly at the expense of the ruling party. The Green's control of the council, while significant, was in fact an own goal created by the Labor Party's failed gerrymander. One of the assumptions many people have of his long time in power was that it was only able to occur because the gerrymander kept Labor out of office. Nationalist resentment at the gerrymander was amplified by the determination of Unionists to define the centre of the city, enclosed within its plantation walls, as a loyalist public space. They say the current Congressional map is just an old Democratic gerrymander. I'm not crazy about the idea of Republicans using redistricting reform to knock off Democrats while ramming through the most outlandish gerrymanders in the states they control. Wary of democracy, he helped enshrine a rural gerrymander in the Legislative Council of which he was a member 1890-1916. The Labor Party has thrown one of its basic principles out the window by now supporting the gerrymander in Western Australia. Labor held office, intermittently, in a number of States, but State election seemed as remote as federal victory - and only partly because of gerrymanders. It also polls well under 5 per cent and could throw up the closest thing to a gerrymander if the previous election's turnout is repeated. If you're afraid of what a neutral redistricting will do, just imagine what a genuinely partisan gerrymander could accomplish. The gerrymander would be even more pronounced with the non-voting stock comprising just 870 million out of 3.1 billion - or just 28.9 per cent of the total. As Polsby points out, the art of the gerrymander is another instance with respect to which the constitutional order has been turned on its head. Origin Early 19th century: from the name of Governor Elbridge Gerry of Massachusetts + salamander, from the supposed similarity between a salamander and the shape of a new voting district on a map drawn when he was in office (1812), the creation of which was felt to favor his party; the map (with claws, wings, and fangs added) was published in the Boston Weekly Messenger, with the title The Gerry-Mander.
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