- 看过 gerrymander 的人也看了 :
- fix
- manipulate
- falsify
- tamper with
- engineer
- juggle
- doctor
- fake
- fiddle with
- trump up
gerrymander 的 2 个定义
- 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.
- U.S. Politics. to subject to a gerrymander.
gerrymander 近义词
等同于 rig
gerrymander 的近义词 10 个
更多gerrymander例句
- We often talk about individual features of our system — voter suppression, extreme gerrymanders, the electoral college — as anti-majoritarian.
- In fact, districts with a minority population significantly higher than 50 percent may be trying to “pack” nonwhite voters into too few districts — the mark of a racial gerrymander.
- If you don't, I shall give the documents in the gerrymander affair to the papers the day after you fail.
- It happens every few years that the newspapers are full of more or less excited talk about a "gerrymander."
- It was entirely a party fight; for, by grace of the last gerrymander, the nomination carried with it the certainty of election.
- It is not settled who is entitled to the authorship of the word "Gerrymander," for which a number of claimants have appeared.
- It was from this incident that the word "gerrymander," so often heard in politics in these days, took its name.