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gerrymander
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As a verb, gerrymander means divide a geographic area into voting districts in such a way as to give an unfair advantage to one party in an election. As a noun, it means the act of gerrymandering.
Meanings of gerrymander
5 meaningsverb
pejorativeTo divide a geographic area into voting districts in such a way as to give an unfair advantage to one party in an election.
pejorativeTo draw dividing lines for other types of districts in an unintuitive way to favor a particular group or for other perceived gain.
“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.”
noun
pejorativeThe act of gerrymandering.
pejorativeA voting district skewed by gerrymandering.
“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 4 counties while carving up neighborhoods in half.”
An act of gerrymandering (dividing a voting area so as to give your own party an unfair advantage)
Meanings from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0).