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say it: JER-ee-man-dur
gerrymander is a noun and verb meaning "an act of gerrymandering (dividing a voting area so as to give your own party an unfair advantage)". It is pronounced /ˈdʒɛɹiˌmændɚ/ — JER-ee-man-dur. It carries 2 recorded senses.
an act of gerrymandering (dividing a voting area so as to give your own party an unfair advantage)
divide unfairly and to one's advantage; of voting districts
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for gerrymander come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.