- 1傑利蠑螈、選區不公平劃分
The practice — or the ongoing act — of redrawing voting-area borders so one person, group, or party has an unfair advantage at election time. This is the usual noun in news and essays: people talk about gerrymandering as a problem, a tactic, a history. It is the -ing form of , so it can also just be the verb in progress (they are gerrymandering the map). It sounds formal and . Though actually, writers sometimes use it for any political map-drawing they dislike, even when the is argued rather than clear; the tidy dictionary picture is ‘cheating with borders,’ and real fights are often about whether that is what happened.
組成gerrymander (Gerry, from the name Gerald, + salamander) + -ing (the practice, or the verb in progress).
同家族的字
- gerrymanderthe verb, and also a noun for a biased map or district
- salamanderthe animal in the original joke-name
原始詞典資料3 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
gerrymanderingnoun/ˈdʒɛ.ɹiˌmæn.də.ɹɪŋ/
- 1
governmentpoliticsThe practice of redrawing electoral districts to gain an electoral advantage for a political party.
- "I joined the Congressman in fighting back against the Tennessee General Assembly's racist gerrymandering that will erase the voices of Black and brown voters in Nashville. […] Kent Syler, a professor of political science at Middle Tennessee State University, told Newsweek in an interview Tuesday evening that the "aggressive" gerrymandering will make it "very, very difficult" for Democrats to hold the seat in the 2022 midterms.
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。