| 单词 | gerrymander |
| 释义 | gerrymander —gerrymanderer, n. /jer"i man'deuhr, ger"-/, n. 1. U.S. Politics. the dividing of a state, county, etc., into election districts so as to give one political party a majority in many districts while concentrating the voting strength of the other party into as few districts as possible. v.t. 2. U.S. Politics. to subject (a state, county, etc.) to a gerrymander. [1812, Amer.; after E. GERRY (governor of Massachusetts, whose party redistricted the state in 1812) + (sala)mander, from the fancied resemblance of the map of Essex County, Mass., to this animal, after the redistricting] |
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