noun🔗ShareゲリマンダーThe act of gerrymandering."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."この不正な慣行、つまりゲリマンダーとして知られるものによって、各州の少数党は、適切な代表の約半分または4分の1しか得ることができません。politicsgovernmentChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun🔗Shareゲリマンダーによって歪められた選挙区A voting district skewed by gerrymandering."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."地区12の地図を見た市民なら誰でも、4つの郡を横断し、近隣地域を半分に分断するばかげたやり方から、それがゲリマンダーであるとすぐにわかるだろう。politicsgovernmentstatelawChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb🔗Share選挙で特定の政党に不当な有利さを与えるために、地理的区域を投票区に分割するTo divide a geographic area into voting districts in such a way as to give an unfair advantage to one party in an election."The city council gerrymandered the voting districts to favor the incumbent mayor's party. "市議会は、現職市長の政党を有利にするために投票区を分割した。politicsgovernmentChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb🔗Share選挙区割りで不正を行う(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."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."教育長は、裕福なゲーテッドコミュニティの子供たちが、街の向こう側にあるより良い学校に通い続けられるように、学区の境界線で不正を行うのを手伝いました。politicsgovernmentChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
