Usually means: Redrawing districts to favor parties.
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  1. gerrymander: Merriam-Webster
  2. gerrymander: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. gerrymander: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. gerrymander: Collins English Dictionary
  5. gerrymander: Vocabulary.com
  6. Gerrymander, gerrymander: Wordnik
  7. gerrymander: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. gerrymander: Wiktionary
  9. gerrymander: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. gerrymander: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. gerrymander: Infoplease Dictionary
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  13. gerrymander: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. gerrymander: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Gerrymander: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Gerrymander: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. gerrymander: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. gerrymander: Rhymezone
  19. Gerrymander: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. gerrymander: FreeDictionary.org
  21. gerrymander: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  22. gerrymander: Mnemonic Dictionary
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  25. gerrymander: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  26. Gerrymander: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)

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  1. gerrymander: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. Duhaime's Canadian law dictionary (No longer online)
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  5. gerrymander: Legal dictionary

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  1. gerrymander: Encyclopedia

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  2. Gerrymander: Glossary of Election Terms
  3. gerrymander, gerrymander: A Word A Day
  4. gerrymander: Wordcraft Dictionary

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  1. gerrymander: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See gerrymandered as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (gerrymander)

verb:  (transitive, derogatory) To divide a geographic area into voting districts in such a way as to give an unfair advantage to one party in an election.
verb:  (transitive, derogatory, by extension) To draw dividing lines for other types of districts in an unintuitive way to favor a particular group or for other perceived gain.
verb:  (transitive, derogatory, by extension) To change the franchise or voting system in such a way as to give an unfair advantage to one party in an election.
verb:  (transitive, derogatory, by extension, chiefly UK and Ireland) 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.
noun:  (derogatory) The act of gerrymandering.
noun:  (derogatory) A voting district skewed by gerrymandering.

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