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Hyphenation of gerrymander

How to hyphenate gerrymander

Because it is a word with a single syllable, gerrymander is not hyphenated. The words that have a single syllable are called monosyllabic words.

gerrymander
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Haphenation done based on the Knuth-Liang word-division algorithm. The computed hyphenation pattern is: gerrymander

Definitions of gerrymander

gerrymander is defined as:

Definition 1 as noun

  • noun
    The act of gerrymandering.

    Example: By this iniquitous practice, which is known as the gerrymander, the party in a minority in each State is allowed to get only about one-half or one-quarter of its proper share of representation.

  • noun
    A voting district skewed by gerrymandering.

    Example: 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.

Definition 1 as verb

  • verb
    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
    (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.

    Example: 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.

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